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Space
Space
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Joanna Thompson

The devil may wear Prada on Earth, but NASA Artemis astronauts will on the moon. Here's why.

A larger poster for "The Devil Wears Prada 2" on a red carpet is in the background with an oversized red heel, in the foreground is a spacesuit. .

In "The Devil Wears Prada 2," there's a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment where a billionaire character scoffs at the idea of sending astronauts to the moon — "We went there 60 years ago!" And Mars, pfft! Who is he, Musk? No, the real innovation, he suggests, is sending astronauts to the sun. He even has a name for his spaceship: The Icarus (yes, the irony is lost on him).

That character may be against sending crewed missions back to the moon, but NASA certainly isn’t. The agency plans to land humans on the lunar surface as part of its ongoing Artemis initiative — in Prada, no less.

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