1st women astronaut to go on Moon
16, May 2019
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- Mission Artemis will likely carry the first woman astronaut to the Moon.
- The mission has been named after the Greek Moon goddess who was also the twin sister of the Apollo.
- The first men to walk on the Moon did so under the Apollo missions between 1960 and 1972.
- Now, 50 years later, NASA has planned to send the first woman to the Moon in a manned lunar mission in 2024.
