NEW YORK - NASA and SPACE-X are collaborating tomorrow to launch a commercial crew program considered to be the start of a new era of space exploration.

This will be the first fully crewed and operational commercial mission to the international space station.

We spoke with Nicole Jordan, the manager of the mission and Loral O’Hara, a NASA astronaut who told us details about tomorrow and what it means for the future.

"We'll wake the crew up early tomorrow morning; they'll get suited and go out to the launch pad. I'll be in a back room in mission control here and we will launch them into orbit. And they'll take about a little more than 24 hours to get to the space station,” said Nicole Jordan, the Crew-1 mission manager. “And so, I hope that we are now ushering in a new era where we will have regular launches from Florida to go to the space station, and eventually to the moon and beyond."

The four astronauts on board will spend six months on the international space station. After high winds canceled today's launch, it's now scheduled for Sunday at 7:27 p.m.

NY1 will have special live coverage beginning tomorrow evening at 7:15.