Bernard O'Shea

It's mad stuff.

The temperatures reach beyond what you could imagine.

And if they make it successfully, they will splash down with three parachutes off the coast of San Diego.

sometime on Saturday morning.

And that will be a successful mission.

And then there's Artemis 3.

Artemis 3 doesn't go into deep space.

They'll be doing a docking test in low Earth orbit, LEO.

That's to make sure that everything's working.

For the next one, which is Artemis 4, which is targeted for 2028,

And that'll be the programme's first crewed lunar landing and the first since Apollo 17 in 1972.

So that's to happen in 2028.

So there are no lunar missions for 50 years and then it's a bit like Dublin Bus.

You get three of them in quick succession, 2026, 2027, 2028.

One thing I noticed in looking at all the footage

from NASA, and it is spectacular, the footage and the images and the audio and all that sort of thing, is the number of women who are in NASA.

I remember all those

sort of news clips that you would have seen back in the 60s and 70s.

Pathé news.

That it was just loads of men in white shirts and black ties.