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> The original Artemis plan never made much sense as a Mars "proof-of-concept", but it actually does now.

IIRC, in the Iliad Artemis helps out Ares (which is kinda the Greek version of Mars). Probably just a coincidence (I'm sure Artemis was chosen because she's Apollo's sister), but fun nonetheless.

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Huh. I always just assumed they were copying the Andy Weir book of the same name. Guess I am going to have to add Greek mythology to the todo.

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You thought NASA named a program after a random sci-fi book and not for a Greek god like the Apollo program?

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To be fair, a lot of science is named after and even inspired from sci-fi works. The Alcubierre drive comes to mind, which was inspired by Star Trek.

But yeah, Andy Weir is far from a classic in that regard.

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Artemis the goddess was associated with the moon.