NASA has scheduled a “translunar injection burn” for 7:49 p.m. eastern time. That’s a nearly six-minute burst of propulsion meant to push the Orion capsule and its four astronauts away from Earth’s gravity and put it on an intercept course with the moon—after a journey of several hundred thousand kilometres through space. (The Logic)

Talking point: Humans haven’t left Earth orbit since 1972. But the crew that’ll do it—including, of course, Canadian Jeremy Hansen—spent some of their first hours in space doing jobs as basic as any at home: fixing a toilet and trying to get their email to work. The voyage toward the moon is to take about four Earth days, with the capsule’s swing around the moon due on Day 6 of the mission (Monday, in North America).