Artemis Acceleration Press Conference
From left to right; NASA Deputy Press Secretary George Alderman; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; 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.