NASA Is Sending Human Tissue To The Moon — And Calling It ‘Avatar’

NASA Is Sending Human Tissue To The Moon — And Calling It ‘Avatar’

HOUSTON, Texas — NASA has named a lot of things over its seven-decade history: rockets, rovers, telescopes, and orbital stations. The agency tends toward the epic — Apollo, Artemis, Voyager, Perseverance. So, when researchers attached to the Artemis II mission chose to name a biological payload aboard the Orion spacecraft “Avatar,” it is worth pausing to ask why — and what, exactly, they packed into that name. The Avatar payload is, at its core,…