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It is 16 1โ2 feet wide, and it is 11 feet tall, and it's round and sort of shaped like a cone.
And four people have been living.
The size has been compared to about the size of two minivans.
So four people have been living in two minivans for nine days.
I have been in a mock up of the capsule.
It's really small.
I mean, there's not much room at all.
And by the way, it's four people sharing, among other things, one one toilet.
And in fact, they had a problem where the toilet jammed and that they had to play space plumbers.
And it has been fascinating.
There have been millions of people.
Watching them just day to day doing their mission in space and watching them.
It's been live stream and they've been doing a lot of media interviews, which I think is really powerful.
One of the most important purposes of the space mission.
is to inspire the next generation.
And I think in the midst of all the other challenges we have going on, seeing that four human beings are capable of going back to the moon and knowing the promise that we're soon going to be walking on the moon.
And by the way, not just walking on the moon.
It is the objective of NASA, and I have written this into law, that we will have sustained human habitation on the surface of the moon.
And President Trump is committed to building a lunar base.
And one of the cool things, Ben, you know, representing Texas for 14 years, just about every single major piece of space legislation that has passed in the last 14 years