Artemis II L-2 Countdown Status News Conference

From left to right, Courtney Beasley, NASA communications; NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis II launch director; John Honeycutt, chair, Artemis II mission management team; and Emily Nelson, NASA’s chief flight director, participates in a news conference on Monday, March 30, 2026, to discuss the upcoming Artemis II test flight at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Artemis II mission will take Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Complex 39B no earlier than 6:24 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 1.

Location: KSC TV Studio