NASA and the Division of Protection will host a media tournament at the restoration operations that can deliver the Artemis II astronauts and the company’s Orion spacecraft house on the conclusion of subsequent 12 months’s venture across the Moon. The in-person tournament will happen at 3 p.m. PDT on Monday, March 31, at Naval Base San Diego in California.
A crew of NASA and Division of Protection staff are at sea within the Pacific Ocean the place splashdown will happen. The crew these days is training the procedures it’s going to use to get well the astronauts after their greater than 600,000 mile adventure from Earth and again at the first crewed venture underneath the Artemis marketing campaign. A check model of Orion and different {hardware} additionally will likely be on-hand for media representatives to view.
media should RSVP no later than 4 p.m. PDT Friday, March 28, to Naval Base San Diego Public Affairs at nbsd.pao@us.military.mil or 619-556-7359. The beginning time of the development would possibly alternate according to the realization of trying out actions.
Contributors come with:
Liliana Villarreal, NASA’s Artemis II touchdown and restoration director, Exploration Floor Programs Program, NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida
Capt. Andrew “Andy” Koy, commanding officer of USS Somerset (LPD 25), U.S. Army
Lt. Col. David Mahan, commander, U.S. Air Power’s 1st Air Power, Detachment 3, Patrick Area Power Base, Florida
A number of astronauts taking part within the trying out will likely be to be had for interviews.
Artemis II would be the first check flight of the SLS (Area Release Device) rocket, Orion spacecraft, and supporting floor gadget with team aboard. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Area Company) astronaut Jeremy Hansen will mission across the Moon and again. The venture is every other step towards missions at the lunar floor and serving to the company get ready for long run astronaut missions to Mars.
Be informed extra about Artemis II at:
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Jim Wilson
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jim.wilson@nasa.gov
Madison Tuttle/Allison Tankersley
Kennedy Area Heart, Florida
321-298-5968/321-867-2468
madison.e.tuttle@nasa.gov / allison.p.tankersley@nasa.gov
