NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT (18:30 UTC) today, Friday, August 14, live from the XLV Hangar at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The purpose: preview a new, major public event planned for later this year at the spaceport, tied to America's 250th anniversary.
According to the agency's media advisory, the event "will be tied to America's 250th anniversary, showcasing American leadership in aviation, space exploration, and emerging technologies while bringing together the public, industry leaders, innovators, and the next generation of explorers." Expected participants include NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, NASA leadership and members of Congress.
The news conference is open to U.S. media and digital creators in person and will be streamed live through nasa.gov/live and NASA's other platforms. It follows a year in which NASA has leaned into the America 250 milestone — including red-white-and-blue cosmic images released around July 4 and a summer of public engagement tied to the semiquincentennial.
The announcement also comes at a busy time for the agency: the Roman Space Telescope is being fueled for a late-August launch, Artemis II carried four astronauts around the Moon earlier this year, and NASA continues to prepare the Artemis program's next steps alongside commercial partners. Kennedy Space Center — the departure point for the Apollo missions and home of the Space Shuttle program — will be the stage for whatever the agency unveils later this year.
