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None other than "Osiris" -- the constellation of Orion!
Additional evidence, attesting to the authenticity of this little known historical detail, can be seen in director Ron Howard's recent recreation of the ill-fated mission of "Apollo 13"; in one pivotal scene, just before the astronauts reenter the Earth's atmosphere, two NASA officials are seen having an intense discussion in Mission Control . . . while directly behind them hangs the original, official "Orion" insignia of the whole Apollo Program (see below).
[Curiously, immediately after the Apollo 13 "accident," (see below) NASA quietly changed this official Apollo Program logo -- adding random stars to the existing constellation, thereby cleverly obscuring its direct derivation from "Orion" . . .]
What (the discerning reader might ask) is a mythological Egyptian stellar
deity doing, representing an official U.S. governmental exploration of the Moon (and, in a
program known under the designation of a Greek "sun god," Apollo; why not the Greek goddess
of the Moon, "Diana," for example)?