Mike Pence, the US vice president, is set to announce the 18-strong cadre of astronauts who will be available for NASA's new moon missions.
The announcement, which was first reported by Ars Technica, will be made in Florida as part of an update on NASA's Artemis programme.
It follows an audit report by the space agency's office of inspector general (OIG), which warned NASA's plans to to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024 are "unlikely" to be achieved.
The 18 astronauts who will be named today won't all be going to the moon, but will be available for crew assignments when the schedule for these is established.
According to Ars Technica, the first moon-landing mission, Artemis III, may carry up to four astronauts to the lunar surface, but is unlikely to fly before 2026.
The timeline for these missions will depend on how much support the incoming Biden administration is prepared to invest in NASA's exploration activities.
The agenda of today's meeting "suggests it will be something of a 'victory lap' for the Trump administration to note its accomplishments in civil and military space", according to Ars.
The online magazine also reported that the public announcement has caused some concern for NASA's Astronaut Office based in Houston.
Although NASA didn't officially comment, Ars reported there was concern "it would essentially create a group of 'favourites' within the office, undermining a sense of unity shared among the space fliers".
NASA's Artemis programme - named after the mythological sister of Apollo, the first moon mission's namesake - aimed to take the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface by 2024, although that date is now in question.
While president-elect Joe Biden has named the members of his NASA transition team, he hasn't yet set out his administration's priorities for the space agency or the Artemis programme.
Alongside the astronaut landings, NASA had intended to establish a "Lunar Gateway" outpost, which will be orbiting the moon by the mid-2020s, and then lunar landers to deliver cargo to the surface by the late 2020s.
The OIG report stated that due to numerous challenges facing the Lunar Gateway mission, "we anticipate further schedule delays and cost increases, making the Gateway unlikely to be available for the planned 2024 lunar landing".
It is not clear whether these missions will continue at all or if they will postponed.
Some reports expect that, as president, Mr Biden would re-prioritise the agency's climate change research, refunding missions which the Trump administration sidelined.
His administration could then push the lunar landing date back until 2028, in-line with a proposed bill from the US House science committee which endorsed plans to venture to Mars, but on a longer timescale.
The OIG report stated: "Over the past decade, our oversight work has found NASA consistently struggling to address each of these significant issues and the Artemis mission's accelerated timetable will likely further exacerbate these challenges."
The agency had always acknowledged that the 2024 date was an "ambitious timeline", noting that spaceflight systems "can take six to eight years to develop" when there were less than five years to go for the agency to meet its 2024 target.
