Wonder why NASA named the mission after the pagan goddess "Artemis"?

Aside from the obvious moon goddess, "Artemis was also the goddess of illness, pestilential diseases and sudden death to infants, girls and women, for she was not only the protector of girls, but also by contrast their destroyer." "Artemis was a dawn-goddess, the bringer of light, and crop-destroying frost." "Lucifera (the light-bringer) among the Greeks."
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