Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Who will be the first woman?
Fifty years after a military test pilot made the first striated boot prints in the thick gray powder of the lunar surface, NASA has an ambitious plan to send humans back to the moon by 2024.
But this time there's a twist.
The next time a pair of astronauts set foot on the moon, the space agency has vowed that at least one of them will be a woman.
"I think most women would say it's about time," said former astronaut Janet Kavandi, director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. "Women have been in the astronaut corps for decades now. We've gone everywhere else our male counterparts have gone."
NASA is so serious about sending a woman to the moon that it has named its new lunar program Artemis. In Greek mythology, Artemis is the goddess of the moon and twin sister
