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You is how reusable it is. the reusable booster that lands on its own, the capsule itself, fairly precise, you are in space for a little while but there was always a debate whether they can claim to be astronauts, they say we were up there, don't care how long it was, we are astronauts. where are you on this? >> the question continues to hunt us. space flyer is a big term for me. i spent nine years before i got a sniff of outer space. now it is different, they are in microgravity for a few minutes and come back. the philosophy of the goal they are trying to achieve is quite different, gives th...

Even at this last minute they are pounding away with hammers, wrenches, really the basic tools to try to make this high tech capsule work. this is the capsule that's going to go down initially as you said with the medic to monitor 33 miners. then pull them up one at a time. it will be a slow ride up. just a few feet per second it could take a 20 minute ride overall. the capsule itself, you talked about the wheels that go in. it does look high tech, but the operation itself is fairly simple. there is a large wheel which will be cranked. that wheel will turn and pull up a steel coil. so it's thi...

Make some of those walls crumble. so you could get a big enough rock that would get stuck between the wall and a capsule and that could be a problem. so they're talking about putting this casing in there. >> this is 28 inches. >> that's right. the capsule goes through there. so you make a nice casing, slides right through. now, the other thing is that capsule itself, how tiny is that thing? >> 21 inches. >> so this is 21 inches around, so that's not very big. >> put your hands down and it barely goes over the shoulder of an average size man. >> it's going to be a tight squeeze. and nine of the...