Artemis III commander, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnick (center), speaks with members of NASA’s Orion spacecraft team in front of the Artemis III crew module inside the high bay of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, July 10, 2026. Bresnick and fellow Artemis III crew member, NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, met with Orion teams and got a close look at the work underway for their upcoming mission. Bresnick, Douglas, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano will launch on the Artemis III mission to conduct critical rendezvous and docking tests with lunar lander systems in low Earth orbit, advancing the capabilities needed before astronauts return to the lunar surface on Artemis IV.