NASA UPDATE ON ARTEMIS II MISSION, Aug 8, 2023, KSC, 2:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a news conference on August 8, 2023 at 2:00 pm ET at Kennedy Space Center, FL to provide an update on the Artemis II mission scheduled for launch next year to take four people — three Americans and one Canadian — on a trip around the Moon.

The news conference will be broadcast on NASA TV, the NASA app, and NASA Live.

Participants are:

• 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)