{"id":800046,"date":"2026-01-08T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800046"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:20:30","slug":"nasa-to-provide-media-with-international-space-station-update-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800046","title":{"rendered":"NASA to Provide Media with International Space Station Update Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 7, the agency announced it was postponing a planned spacewalk originally scheduled for Jan. 8 while teams monitored a medical concern with a crew member currently living and working aboard the orbital laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The matter involved a single crew member, who is stable. Due to medical privacy, it is not appropriate for NASA to share more details about the crew member.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the news conference include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman<\/li>\n<li>Amit Kshatriya, associate administrator<\/li>\n<li>Dr. James Polk, chief health and medical officer, NASA Headquarters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NASA will provide live coverage of the news conference on\u00a0NASA+,\u00a0Amazon Prime, and the agency\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel. Learn how to\u00a0stream NASA content\u00a0through a variety of online platforms, including social media.<\/p>\n<p>To participate in the news conference virtually or in-person, media must RSVP for details no later than one hour before the start of the event to the NASA Newsroom at: hq-media@mail.nasa.gov. NASA\u2019s media credentialing policy is online.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the International Space Station, visit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">-end-<\/p>\n<p>Bethany Stevens \/ Cheryl Warner<br \/>Headquarters, Washington<br \/>202-358-1600<br \/>bethany.c.stevens@nasa.gov \/ cheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-provide-media-with-international-space-station-update-today\/?rand=772197\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA will host a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST on Thursday from the agency\u2019s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew. On Jan.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}