NASA to make big announcement about Artemis moon spacesuits today. Watch the reveal live.

You can watch the announcement of who will make the spacesuits for the Artemis moon program on June 1.

The news will be announced during a press conference. The sun sets at 1800 GMT. You can watch it live at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency.

In a media advisory released last week, NASA officials said the press conference will reveal the company, or companies, selected to move forward in developing the next generation of spacesuits for Artemis missions at the moon and the International Space Station.

There are pictures of the evolution of the spacesuit.

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Artemis wants to establish a long-term, sustainable human presence on and around the moon by the end of the 2020s. NASA believes that the lessons and skills learned in making that happen will aid the agency in its plans to send a crewed mission to Mars in the late 2030s or early 2040s.

NASA and its partners are working to develop and mature a variety of spaceflight technology to turn the grand Artemis vision into reality.

New spacesuits that allow humans to explore the lunar surface and unlock new spacewalk capabilities outside the International Space Station are critical parts of advancement of human exploration in space and demonstrating continued American leadership, according to a media advisory from NASA.

New exploration spacesuits, together with human surface mobility systems, the Space Launch System rocket, the Orion Spacecraft, ground systems, Gateway and human landing systems, will enable NASA to return humans to and establish a long-term presence at the moon. TheGateway is a small moon-orbiting space station that will serve as a jumping-off point for crewed missions to the lunar surface.

The people are at a press conference.

• Vanessa Wyche, director, NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
• Lindsay Aitchison, program executive for Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program, NASA headquarters
• Lara Kearney, manager, Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program, JSC
• Dina Contella, operations integration manager, International Space Station Program, JSC

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