Artemis Acceleration News Conference
NASA leadership updates the agency's Artemis III mission plans and beyond at a news conference on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager discuss the mission that will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit in 2027 to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings, and how plans to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 are progressing.