NASA UPDATE ON ARTEMIS PROGRAM, Oct 23, 2026, DC, 2:00 pm ET

NASA will provide an update on the status of the Artemis program on October 23, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET at NASA HQ in Washington, DC.

Participants are:

• NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
• NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya
• Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager

The event will be livestreamed. Check NASA Live for the link(s).

Following the successful Artemis I uncrewed test flight around the Moon in 2022, and the successful Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon earlier this year, NASA is preparing to launch Artemis III in 2027.

Unlike the first two missions, Artemis III will not go to the Moon. It’s an earth-orbiting mission to test rendezvous and docking operations with test versions of the two landers that will ferry astronauts between lunar orbit and the lunar surface — SpaceX’s Human Landing System (HLS) version of Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mk2.

If all goes according to plan, one of those will land NASA astronauts back on the lunar surface in 2028 for the first time since the Apollo program ended in 1972.