ARTEMIS I POST-LAUNCH BRIEFING, Aug 29, 2022, KSC/virtual, 1:00 pm ET

Update, August 29:  The launch scrubbed this morning.  A post-scrub press conference will take place at 1:00 pm ET and air on NASA TV. Participants are:

• Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator
• Jim Free, NASA Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development
• Mike Sarafin, NASA Artemis Mission Manager

Original Entry: NASA continues to target August 29 as the No Earlier Than date for the Artemis I test launch of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. NASA will hold a number of pre-launch briefings beginning August 22. See our separate entries for details. The full list also is in the NASA press release. All will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.

If launch is on August 29, NASA TV coverage will begin at midnight.

A post-launch press conference will take place at approximately 12:00 pm ET. The launch window is open for two hours (8:33 – 10:33 am ET) so the timing of post-launch events may change depending on the exact time of liftoff.

Participants in the post-launch press conference are:

• Bill Nelson, NASA administrator
• Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters
• Mike Bolger, Exploration Ground Systems Program manager, Kennedy
• Howard Hu, Orion Program manager, Johnson
• John Honeycutt, Space Launch System Program manager, Marshall

Additional NASA TV coverage will occur at 4:00 pm ET of Orion’s first outbound trajectory burn and at 5:30 pm ET of the first views of Earth from Orion.