‘Any Woman Can See’ Themself in NASA’s Artemis Logo ~ Digital Library

Woman on the Moon (via NASA)

Hot off the heels of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk, the agency released a powerful feminist logo for its Artemis Moon mission.

Available as desktop and mobile backgrounds in a variety of colors, the image—a woman’s face peering into the infinite cosmos—illustrates the Greek goddess in the highlights and shadows of a crescent Moon.

Named after the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon, the Artemis mission will help put the first woman and next man (or perhaps the first two women?) on the lunar south pole by 2024.

“As the ‘torch bringer,’ literally and figuratively, Artemis will light our way to Mars,” NASA said in an announcement. Her features are abstract enough that any woman can see themselves in her.”

International Space Station residents Christina Koch and Jessica Meir certainly do: The pair, who made history as the first team of female astronauts to go on a spacewalk together, expressed interest in the job.

“Another dream would be to go to the Moon,” Meir said during a Monday Q&A session from orbit. “That’s always the image I had from the very first drawing I did when I said I wanted to be an astronaut in the first grade.”

There is no word yet on who will make the trip.

“Of course it would be a dream of mine and has been my entire life,” Koch said of going to the Moon. “But for now I will just settle for knowing that I will probably at least know the first woman to walk on the Moon.”

We choose to go to the Moon

NASA’s goal 50 years ago was to prove it could land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth.

Now, the agency ~~is being forced~~ wants to revisit Earth’s satellite (in a sustainable way) as a sort of pit stop on an eventual trip to Mars.

In February, Vice President Mike Pence demanded the National Aeronautics and Space Administration put new boot prints in the lunar dust within five years.

The exact timeline remains unclear: Sometime in the next five years, Artemis 1 will launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket around the Moon to test the system, before landing humans back on the planetoid.

Following two initial missions—Artemis 1 (uncrewed) and Artemis 2 (crewed)—Artemis 3 will launch the next American moonwalks into “a new era of exploration,” according to NASA.

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