Artemis II Post Launch News Conference

From left to right, Bethany Stevens, NASA communications; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate; and Norm Knight, director, NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, participate in a news conference on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the liftoff of the Artemis II test flight. The Artemis II mission will take Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.

From left to right, Bethany Stevens, NASA communications; NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman; NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya; Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate; and Norm Knight, director, NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, participate in a news conference on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the NASA News Center at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the liftoff of the Artemis II test flight. The Artemis II mission will take Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Location KSC
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