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Hansen is planning to speak to reporters live from the Orion spacecraft at 1:10 a.m. ET Saturday. 

The broadcast is expected to last about 20 minutes, according to the Canadian Space Agency. 

"Hansen will share his impressions of the Artemis II mission and ... Answer questions from Canadian journalists," the agency said.

We're wrapping up live updates on this page for now as the Orion capsule continues its journey to the moon. 

If you can't get enough updates of this historic journey, NASA has a livestream providing 24/7 coverage of Artemis II mission activities. 

For space fanatics following along with the mission from home, NASA has a real-time tracker that shows where the Orion capsule and its crew are.

The tracker lets you visualize where the capsule is in relation to the Earth and the moon, and track the mission's path. It also tracks the capsule's velocity and the distance in miles between the capsule and the Earth or the moon.

For some family members of the astronauts waiting back here on Earth, it's hard to find the words to describe how they're feeling.

"Proud just doesn't capture it for me. It's so much more than that," Victor Glover Sr., father of the mission's pilot, told CNN yesterday. "I walk around with my chest poked out … to the moon where they're headed."

He said he shed some tears of happiness while watching the spacecraft climb into the sky during launch. 

Glover is set to make history on the Artemis II mission as the first Black man to travel around the moon.

His dad says he can't wait for the astronauts to return safely to Earth so he can hug his son.

When the astronauts swing around to the far side of the moon on Monday, they'll lose signal and communication with NASA teams in Houston for about 40 minutes. 

Responding to a reporter's question, NASA officials said there are plenty of capabilities they hope to add in the future so they can keep in constant contact, including relays on the surface of the moon.

We're still a few days away from the moon flyby. 

On Day 5 of the mission, the Orion capsule is slated to enter the "lunar sphere of influence" — when the moon's gravitational pull becomes stronger than the Earth's.

The astronauts get closest to the moon — and farthest from Earth — on Day 6. The crew will come within around 6,500 to 10,000 kilometres of the lunar surface and will spend the day photographing and taking video of the far side of the moon.

They'll be able to view some parts of the lunar surface never before seen by human eyes. Previous Apollo missions travelled closer to the moon, limiting how much of it astronauts could actually see.

WATCH | Visualizing Orion's lunar flyby:

Freiling said the crew has a lot more time on their hands now than they did during the first two days of the mission. 

That will give them time to take more pictures of "anything they can see that's of interest" in space, including stars, the moon and the sun, he said. 

A question came up about a geomagnetic storm watch recently issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for April 3-4, and whether that required any special monitoring or planning by the Orion's crew.

Such storms are associated with coronal mass ejections — large expulsions of plasma and other material — from the sun, according to NOAA.

A NASA official said their radiation specialists were monitoring it, though they didn't expect the storm to pose a concern. If it did, however, the official said the Orion has radiation shelters that the crew could put up. 

Another reporter asked what the astronauts could possibly learn from observing the moon from thousands of kilometres away.  

Even from that distance, Freiling said, scientists believe there are things humans could pick up with "granularity" that a satellite image can't capture. 

"Human eyes can resolve details much better than a photograph," he said. "That observation is what scientists are really looking for."

One reporter asked about a moment on the Orion livestream when the crew were discussing some liquid that needed to be mopped up. 

Artemis II flight director Judd Frieling said some water had spilled out while astronauts were refilling their drink bags.

Officials, including Orion program manager Howard Hu, now say systems are working so well that today's planned outbound trajectory correction — which would have helped the vessel stay on its course to the moon — isn't necessary.

Mission specialist Koch was heard saying as much a little earlier while discussing the planned burn with capcom.

Another trajectory correction is planned for tomorrow.

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