Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who’s scheduled to lift off as part of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission next year — the first crewed mission to the Moon since the 1970s — has an unusual plan for what to do on the launch pad.

Hansen, who has yet to fly to space, told Ars Technica senior space reporter Eric Berger that he’s hoping to “take a very short nap on the pad.”

The crew will climb into the Orion spacecraft roughly three hours before liftoff, giving him ample time for some shuteye.

“There’s enough time built in there to have a nap,” he said. “I’ve been practicing falling asleep. So if the loops are quiet enough, and I get a minute, I’ll try for a nap.”

It’s an unusual way to spend your last moments on Earth before traveling to the Moon and back over a ten-day mission. If all go

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