NASA ANNOUNCES CREW FOR ARTEMIS III, June 9, 2026, JSC, 11:00 am ET

NASA will announce the members of the crew for the next Artemis mission, Artemis III, on June 9, 2026 at Johnson Space Center at 11:00 am ET. It will stream on NASA+ and on the agency’s YouTube channel.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced on February 27 that Artemis III no longer is the mission that will land astronauts on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Instead it will be an earth-orbiting mission to conduct rendezvous and docking tests with one or both of the Human Landing Systems being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin to take astronauts from lunar orbit (where the Orion spacecraft delivers them) down to and back from the lunar surface.