Space Events

Approximately two-and-a-half hours after launch, NASA will hold a postlaunch news conference after the SLS rocket’s upper stage performs a burn to send Orion and its crew to high Earth orbit. This postlaunch news conference will include the following participants: - Administrator Jared Isaacman - Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya - Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate - John Honeycutt, chair, Mission Management Team - Norm Knight, director, Flight Operations Directorate

NASA provides daily Artemis II mission status briefings from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston beginning Thursday, April 2, except for April 6, due to lunar flyby activities.

The Artemis II crew will participate in live conversations throughout the mission, known as downlink events.