From left, NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya and Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, shake hands after each signing the certification for flight readiness following the completion of the Flight Readiness Review for the Artemis II test flight on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The review is an assessment of the readiness of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to support the Artemis II test flight as four astronauts journey around the Moon and return to Earth. 

With NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya looking on, Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, signs the certification for flight readiness following the completion of the Flight Readiness Review for the Artemis II test flight on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The review is an assessment of the readiness of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to support the Artemis II test flight as four astronauts journey around the Moon and return to Earth. 

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya signs the certification for flight readiness following the completion of the Flight Readiness Review for the Artemis II test flight on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The review is an assessment of the readiness of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft to support the Artemis II test flight as four astronauts journey around the Moon and return to Earth. 

In view outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, March 3, 2024, SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are driven to Launch Complex 39A for launch to the International Space Station. Launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from Launch Complex 39A as the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the station, and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.