Artemis Acceleration Press Conference
From left to right; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; NASA Deputy Press Secretary George Alderman; NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya participate, in a news conference on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The briefing reviewed plans for NASA’s Artemis III mission that will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit in 2027 to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings and updated the plans to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028. In a monitor next to Isaacman is a view of Artemis III’s core stage of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assemble Building at NASA Kennedy.