NASA senior leadership and the Artemis II crew participate in a news conference on Aug. 8, 2023, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Participants include, from left, Pam Melroy, NASA deputy administrator; Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator; and Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters. Artemis II is the first mission with astronauts under Artemis, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a journey around the Moon and back, paving the way for future long-term human exploration missions to the lunar surface and eventually Mars.