Planetshine deployed the fairings and then the ponies in the command pod could see into outer space. 'Princess Luna, look out the window, you can see Equestria down there,' Planetshine said, looking out the small window on her left. Princess Luna glanced out the window, amazed at the scale of Equestria from orbit.

'Is that really Equestria, because when I was on the moon for that 1000 years, Equestria looked so small from there, but why does it look so big from here?' she asked.

'Because we are nowhere near the moon.'

'Really?'

'Pfft, yeah, obviously.'

Luna was confused, even though she was in space, she was so far away from the moon. Planetshine wasn't though, as she had been to Minmus before. 'Mission control, do you hear me, when is the transfer to the moon going to start?' Planetshine asked.

Gene replied, 'It will be in about 30 minutes.'

'Mkay,' Planetshine replied, 'I'll check on my map.'

Planetshine checked on her map, looking at the trajectory of the rocket. The manoeuver was one that would put the three ponies on a free return trajectory back to Equestria, which was a pretty neat trick that would save them if an engine broke or something devastating like that.

After waiting a long 30 minutes to the manoeuver, Planetshine fired up her booster, which had a Terrier engine, not the best at TWR, but it was pretty efficient when in outer space, having over 3000 delta-V with only a little bit of fuel in the Rockomax fuel tank. The burn took about 2 minutes of pure burning to get to the moon with a free return trajectory as a cherry on top.

Once the transfer was complete, the ponies in the command pod relaxed, and since Planetshine was a bit hungry after the hectic launch with some bad separations and things like that, she took out the snacks and started to do recreational snacking to pass the time while the other two ponies just talked for a while together. Planetshine then insisted to go on an EVA, something that the other two ponies shouldn't do as they have never used a jetpack to manoeuver around in space.

Planetshine opened the door of the command pod once she put on her spacesuit. Since the top part of the command pod also acted as an airlock for the ponies in the bottom part of the command pod, Bon Bon and Luna weren't affected by Planetshine opening the door. She jetpacked around the lander, which was also the transfer stage. After flying around, checking the lander for any problems, such as broken landing legs.

Once she finished doing her check around the lander, she jetpacked over to one of the windows on the bottom level of the command pod, specifically, Luna's side. She looked in the window of the command pod, and Bon Bon saw her peeking into the command pod. Once Luna realised that Planetshine was looking into the command pod, she freaked out a bit. 'Planetshine!' she said, 'What are you doing?'

'Oh, nothing,' she replied, 'Let me get back into the command pod, just wait a minute or so.'

Planetshine got back into the command pod, taking off her spacesuit once the air was pressurised in her section of the command pod. Then, Bon Bon wanted to have a spacewalk, but Planetshine insisted that she would do it when they were on the moon, as the jetpacks they had would have more than enough TWR to get off the surface of it.

The two ponies were disappointed with what Planetshine said, but they also thought it was somewhat reasonable as they had no EVA training in space. Luna was able to teleport, but then the magic scanners built into the command pod said there was absolutely no magic to be found in space, but it still worked in the command pod.

Having magic in the command pod but not in outer space was very weird to even think about, but it was definitely the case with Princess Luna. Perhaps it only works when a pony is surrounded by air, perhaps the magic scanners were giving wrong information.

Planetshine was the first pony to bust out the snacks and the food, but then the other two ponies in the command pod also asked for some food as they were a bit hungry. There were only really a few choices of meals while in flight in space as food will just fly away everywhere because there was no such thing as gravity when something is orbiting around something else.

The meals were carrots with hay, apples with bread, and cupcakes. Princess Luna chose the cupcakes as she liked eating them, while Bon Bon ate carrots and hay and Planetshine eating snacks instead of apples with bread. She kept the snacks a secret so that nopony else would eat them so she could have all the snacks she wanted.

After eating, the ponies would then get some rest, so they would be awake while going on the Lunar surface, Planetshine and Princess Luna that is. All three ponies took a nap, as the moon would approach in about 30 minutes.

Author's Note

I know it's short, but that's because of very reasonable reasons. (might add more into this)

But here is something.