Bernard O'Shea

One of the big things, of course, is we're constantly reminded that there are no borders.

You can't see any borders in space.

Of course you can't.

We grew up with the globe and all the countries painted differently and all the borders clearly demarcated and in heavy black ink.

And of course, that's not the way it is.

They're all man-made.

They're all man-made.

And that's why we're in the middle of a very dangerous war at the moment because of geopolitical stresses, which have been going on for hundreds and hundreds of years.

And why can't we just imagine?

Imagine, yes, like the song.

Imagine there's no countries.

Yeah, imagine if you can.

Imagine all the people living as one.

Yeah, that ain't going to happen.

That ain't going to happen.

Anyway, I'll read you a paragraph from Samantha Harvey's book.

Tomorrow, I see, so they're coming back down on Saturday.

The big thing is re-entry and they're going to be members of a very small club.

Only 24 people have re-entered the Earth's orbit from deep space.

So they're travelling in something around 40,000 kilometres an hour.