Loren Grush

That's definitely a huge moment.

This is the first time that we are going back to the moon since the Apollo era.

It's meant to serve as something of an elaborate dress rehearsal for the moon landing, which NASA is targeting in 2028.

She said the four-person crew is notable in a few ways.

Victor Glover will be the first Black man to travel to deep space into the moon's vicinity.

Christina Cook will also be the first woman to do so.

And then Jeremy Hansen will be the first Canadian to do the same.

So they'll be making a lot of firsts on this mission.

Also, the crew will be flying deeper into space than any astronauts have ever gone before.

So they'll break that record.

They've likened it to, if you look out the window of the capsule, it'll look like the size of a basketball in your outstretched hand.

There's a lot of concerns about what the state of the hardware that needs to be developed when it comes to the landers, right?

So SpaceX and Blue Origin are developing their lunar landers and they are very complex and they have a lot to do before they're actually ready.

And Isaacman has also said that whoever is ready first will be the ones to fly first.

So he's kind of started a bit of a space race between the two companies that were already rivals to begin with.