Kenneth Chang

And he has a sense of humor about this.

He said, if something goes wrong on this mission, then NASA can blame Canada.

So they'll have a very long day before launch even.

They'll wake up eight hours before launch.

They have to get into their spacesuits.

They'll be driven out to the launch pad.

They'll go up this huge tower and enter their spacecraft.

It's known as Orion.

Then they'll be sitting there for about four hours until the countdown clock gets to zero.

And eight minutes later, they'll be in space.

Wow.

And that first day in space will also be quite busy.

They won't immediately go to the moon.

In fact, what they'll do is make two looping orbits around Earth.

And the reason they're doing that is they want to take this time to check out every little system on the spacecraft to make sure it's working before they make the decision to fire the engines to send them off to the moon.

Right.

So after day two, when they fire the engines to head to the moon, the moon is close to a quarter million miles from Earth, so it takes a while to get there, basically four days.

And they'll be spending all this time in this capsule, which has about as much space as two minivans.

It's actually a little bit more than it'd be on Earth because you get to float around.

So you can use all the space above you.