{"id":67019,"date":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=96cb7b288fda00bb56b9125ea3a22658"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:21:17","slug":"nasa-giving-update-about-artemis-moon-plans-on-oct-23-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/10\/22\/nasa-giving-update-about-artemis-moon-plans-on-oct-23-watch-it-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA&#8217;s update on accelerating Artemis moon plans today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet ><div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-BFF4mSajLA\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>NASA will provide an update about its Artemis moon plans today (Oct. 23), and you can watch it live.<\/p><p>The news will come during a press conference at the agency's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17705-nasa-kennedy-space-center.html\"><u>Kennedy Space Center<\/u><\/a> in Florida, which starts today at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.<\/p><p>\"The update will include details about NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-3-moon-landing-mission\"><u>Artemis III<\/u><\/a> mission that will send four astronauts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a> next year to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings, and how plans to return American astronauts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\"><u>the moon<\/u><\/a> by 2028 are progressing,\" NASA officials said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-discuss-artemis-acceleration-status-of-upcoming-moon-missions\/\" ><u>Oct. 14 media advisory<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"C9EEVo5B2rTe7JYJ2NhjCa\" name=\"artemis-announcement-advisory-oct-13\" alt=\"photo from a spacecraft flying around the moon, showing a crescent earth beyond the lunar limb\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/C9EEVo5B2rTe7JYJ2NhjCa-1920-80.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission captured this photo of a crescent Earth on April 6, 2026, as they began passing behind the moon. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: NASA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Three agency officials will participate in Friday's \"Artemis Acceleration\" event. They are:<\/p><ul><li>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman<\/li><li>NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya<\/li><li>Jeremy Parsons, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\"><u>Artemis program<\/u><\/a> manager<\/li><\/ul><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/Uzmm6nRR.html\" id=\"Uzmm6nRR\" title=\"Artemis 2 crew's amazing views of Earth, Moon and Solar eclipse during lunar flyby\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>NASA is currently gearing up for Artemis III, which is targeted for mid-2027. The mission will test rendezvous and docking technologies between NASA's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/27824-orion-spacecraft.html\"><u>Orion<\/u><\/a> capsule and one or both of the private spacecraft that NASA picked to be the Artemis program's crewed lunar landers: SpaceX's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> and Blue Origin's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/blue-origin-lunar-lander\"><u>Blue Moon<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><p>After that will come Artemis IV, which will land astronauts near the lunar south pole in early 2028, if all goes to plan. That will be the first crewed moon touchdown since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17287-apollo-17-last-moon-landing.html\"><u>Apollo 17<\/u><\/a> way back in 1972. <\/p><p>It's unclear which lunar lander will fly on Artemis IV; that depends on how the development of each one progresses and what happens on Artemis III.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/weZburoj.html\" id=\"weZburoj\" title=\"NASA's Artemis II crew delivers powerful message of unity after splashdown\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>And there will be other landings after Artemis IV. NASA plans to establish a moon base via Artemis, and doing so will require a variety of missions, both robotic and crewed. <\/p><p>The agency feels some urgency in this quest, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/human-spaceflight\/the-us-is-now-at-risk-of-losing-to-china-in-the-race-to-send-people-back-to-the-moons-surface\"><u>China has similar goals<\/u><\/a>. It's important that the U.S. wins this new space race, military and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/us-win-moon-race-china-congress-artemis-hearing\"><u>political officials have said<\/u><\/a>, so that the nation can establish the norms of responsible behavior on Earth's nearest neighbor.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will provide an update about its Artemis III mission and its plans to land astronauts on the moon during a press conference today (Oct. 23). Here&#8217;s how to watch it live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2861,2796,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artemis","category-missions","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67102,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67019\/revisions\/67102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}