TWO NASA BRIEFINGS ON UPCOMING CREW-5 MISSION, Aug 4, 2022, JSC, 12:30 pm ET and 2:00 pm ET

NASA will hold two briefings on August 4, 2022 at Johnson Space Center in advance of the Crew-5 mission, currently targeted for September 29.

The briefings air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website and the crew also will be available for individual interviews after 3 p.m.

Participants in the two briefings are:

12:30 p.m. Mission Overview News Conference

• Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington
• Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Johnson
• Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA Johnson
• Benjamin Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Program, SpaceX
• Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president and director general, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate at JAXA
• Sergei Krikalev, executive director, Human Space Flight Programs at Roscosmos

2 p.m. Crew News Conference

• Nicole Mann, NASA astronaut, spacecraft commander
• Josh Cassada, NASA astronaut, pilot
• Koichi Wakata, JAXA astronaut, mission specialist
• Anna Kikina, Roscosmos cosmonaut, mission specialist

3 p.m. Crew Individual Interview Opportunities

• Crew-5 astronauts will be available for a limited number of interviews