Press Event

Artemis II Post-Launch News Conference

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Thursday, April 2, 2026 · 00:00 UTC

Press Event

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Approximately two-and-a-half hours after launch, NASA will hold a postlaunch news conference after the SLS rocket’s upper stage performs a burn to send Orion and its crew to high Earth orbit. This postlaunch news conference will include the following participants: - Administrator Jared Isaacman - Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya - Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate - John Honeycutt, chair, Mission Management Team - Norm Knight, director, Flight Operations Directorate

Type

Press Event

Duration

PT56M8S

Location

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Status

Scheduled

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Government

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Artemis

The Artemis program is a US government-funded crewed spaceflight program that has the goal of landing "the first woman and the next man" on the Moon, specifically at the lunar south pole region.

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