Nell Greenfield Boyce

Okay.

On the other hand, it's a lot closer than the Earth is, right?

So NASA has said that from where they are, the moon is going to look about the size, if you held a basketball at arm's length from your face, that's kind of how the moon will look to them.

Oh.

And then, of course, you know, behind it, you'll have the Earth looking very tiny and distant.

And then, you know, as they go around the far side of the moon, there's going to be this communications blackout.

So for a while, they won't be in any contact with Earth and then they'll come around the other side.

So it'll be dramatic.

You know, it may not be landing.

They can't land, but there'll be some drama anyway.

So they've been working on this basically for 22 years.

Yeah.

That's when then President George W. Bush gave a speech saying that NASA was going to finish building the International Space Station, retire the space shuttles, and then build a new vehicle to go to the moon.

So, you know, they've been working towards that ever since.

There's been some, you know, detours and twists and turns along the way.

But that's been the plan for kind of a long time.

And the other thing that's interesting about this mission is there's a lot of firsts involved in it.

So it'll be the first woman to go out to the moon, Christina Cook, astronaut Christina Cook.

And there's going to be the first person of color, Victor Glover.

And then there's the first non-American.