Jesse Rogerson

They char, basically.

They take the heat and they do a chemical reaction.

Delicious.

So that really sheds a lot of the velocity.

And once they get through that, then they can use parachutes and come down nice and safely.

Or in the case of the shuttles years ago, they turned the thing into an airplane and they glided down, right?

So that moment, that few minutes...

where you're going through 5,000, 6,000, 7 degrees Celsius, 7,000 degrees Celsius, and you're shocking the gas, it turns into a plasma, which a plasma is not a regular gas.

It's a gas that's been ionized.

All the electrons have been stripped away.

And that interrupts communication.

So you can't talk to these astronauts as they're literally falling back to Earth.

And then once you're through that and you regain your comms, you can start talking to them as hopefully the chutes have deployed and everybody's happy.

Two reasons.

That's a good question.

First of all, I've read lots about the Apollo era.

I've read, there's a...

there's a great book from the earth to the moon, which was turned into a series by Tom Hanks.

And they, and hearing all of the amazing firsthand accounts from the astronauts at the moon made me jealous.

I wanted, I wanted, I wish that I got to experience what was happening in the Apollo era in the sixties and the seventies.