The princess of the moon, Luna, heard about everything that was going to happen in the mission. She then asked if she would be able to go to the moon as a tour. Equestrian Aerospace's administration had a small problem, there was going to be a tourist, Princess Luna to be exact. A princess, going to space and landing on the moon.

Now, Equestrian Aerospace had to get 3 ponies into space and onto the moon, but if they left Bon Bon out, they could always do a two pony mission, but a change of command pod would fix it all. The mission would be a direct ascent mission, as opposed to an Apollo-style mission, which was doing a rendezvous in orbit and getting the crew back while ditching the lander altogether.

*Fast forward to before launch*

Princess Luna arrived at the space center, ready to go into space. The administration told her that spacesuits were extremely important anywhere in space, even on the moon. Luna took their advice and went to the astronaut complex to greet Planetshine and Bon Bon. The two ponies welcomed Luna to the astronaut complex and then gave her a tour before boarding the rocket.

She looked around the astronaut complex, it contained the spacesuits used for the first spacewalk and the one used for the first Minmus EVA. Then, she entered the other parts of the astronaut complex, which was just living quarters, with entertainment and bedrooms.

Then, she got a full tour around the space center. She saw everything in the tracking station and mission control, but then the ponies realised that they had not enough time to have a tour of the research and development department, but it wasn't that interesting anyway.

The ponies were called to report to the launchpad to board the rocket, which was called the Lunar Express.

Author's Note

I wanted the next chapter to be the launch and getting into orbit.