First female ICC match referee / Mission Artemis / World's First Woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in LSA

First female ICC match referee:

👉India's G.S.Lakshmi has become the first woman to be appointed to the ICC international panel of match referees and will be eligible to officiate in international games with immediate effect.

👉G.S.Lakshmi who first officiated as a match referee in domestic women's cricket in 2008-09, has overseen three women's ODI matches and three women's T20 matches.

👉Earlier this month, Claire Polosak became the first ever woman umpire to stand in a men's ODI.

Mission Artemis:

👉NASA's new manned mission to the moon will be named as Artemis.

👉According to Greek mythology, Artemis, the goddess of the moon, was a twin sister of Apollo.

👉The Artemis program began when president Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive in 2017, directing NASA to send astronauts to the moon.

👉It will land in the lunar south pole in 2024 and will include women on board too.

World's First Woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in LSA:

👉Captain Arohi Pandit, a 23 year old pilot from Mumbai became world's first woman to cross the Atlantic ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA).

👉This is part of her ongoing year long global circumnavigation flight which was launched with her friend Keithair Misquitta.

👉In doing so she also landed her plane at pakistan, making her the first civilian LSA flight pilot to land in the neighbouring country since 1947.