Technicians work on the Orion crew module for NASAs Artemis II mission inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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NASA will host a news conference at 2 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to provide Artemis II mission preparations and crew training updates. Artemis II will send a crew of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and bring them back safely, paving the way for future long-term human exploration missions to the lunar surface, and eventually Mars.
NASA will provide live coverage of the news conference on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agencys website. Watch the update live at:
Participants will include:
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
- NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy
- Jim Free, NASA associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
- Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA
- Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, NASA
- Christina Hammock Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, NASA
- Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, CSA (Canadian Space Agency)
Accreditation to participate in person has passed
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