NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Preparations: Latest News and Updates (Official NASA Briefing)

NASA hosts a news conference on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide Artemis II mission preparations and crew training updates.

Participants include:

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy
NASA Associate Administrator of Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate Jim Free
NASA Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman
NASA Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover
NASA Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Hammock Koch
Canadian Space Agency Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen

Artemis II is the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term lunar presence for science and exploration under Artemis and is the first mission with astronauts to the Moon in more than 50 years.