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NASA holds a prelaunch media briefing on the role of industry in advancing human exploration on Aug. 26, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as the agency prepares for launch of Artemis I scheduled for Aug. 29, at 8:33 a.m. EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39B. Participants, from left are Kathryn Hambleton, NASA Communications; Jim Free, association administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Randy Lycans, vice president/general manager of NASA Enterprise Solutions, Jacobs; Jeff Zotti, RS-25 program director, Aerojet Rocketdyne; Jennifer Boland-Masterson, director of operations, Michoud Assembly Facility, Boeing; Doug Hurley, senior director of business development, Northrop Grumman; Kelly DeFazio, director of Orion production, Lockheed Martin; and Ralf Zimmerman, head of Moon programs and Orion European Service Module, Airbus. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orion’s heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.