Kevin Nolan

Well, I mean, it's enough to melt iron.

It's half the temperature of the surface of the sun.

Right.

Extraordinary warm.

So they are basically going to be sitting inside a fireball for around five or six minutes.

And they will actually see, though the old polyp acid is good, I suspect that they will as well because it's the same shape capsule.

They'll be able to see the melting material go by them through the window as they're passing through.

So it's just friction with the Earth's atmosphere.

But again, as you say, they're travelling at 40,000 kilometres an hour.

That's seven miles a second or 10 kilometres a second.

So click your fingers from the centre of town to Hoth.

That fast, in a second, they're travelling.

Yeah, I can.

I mean, the answer is actually just basically that it's so difficult.

I mean, to get people to the moon in 1969 to 1972, it cost the USA about 4% of their GDP.

And actually, the way I like to say it is, when you break that down, each Saturn V launch was the same cost as Ireland's GDP at that time.

Right.

Now, that's how expensive it was.

Now, currently, NASA gets less than one tenth of that budget wise.

Now, not only not only is that the issue of expense, but actually they didn't want to go back in the meantime just to do that again.