 Welcome once again to the breakfast here on Plus TV Africa. Now let's share a little bit with you what happened on this day in history in 2008. It's pretty popular for big nations across the world to always try to be the first to either go to space or send a spaceship or break some astronomical feet with the glad space. But on this day China eventually got a man walking on space in 2008. His name was Zai Zhigang and became the first Chinese to walk in space. It was part of what was called the Zhenzhu 7 crew on this day. It also was one of the technological feet that Beijing wanted to ensure that they pulled off or they carried out for the rest of the world to see. He entered the spacecraft safely after a walk of about 15 minutes, marking the high point of China's third manned space flight, which had received a blanket media coverage. The risky space walk was a step towards China's long-term goal of assembling a space lab and then a larger space station. Of course, the Communist Party in China back then also massively celebrated this feat. Its first manned space flight was in 2003, followed by a two-man flight in 2005. And then on this day, Zai Zhigang, as it's pronounced, eventually was the first Chinese to walk on space. Always very fascinating because I really don't even understand what this means. Where do you land? Where exactly in space are you? What planet exactly? And it would just always be fascinating to imagine what this whole experience will be like. Because I remember also when we had those conversations about Elon Musk and Richard Branson taking the first flights into space by regular passengers, non-astronauts. There was also people who had mentioned that it's not necessarily going into space space, it's really just going to get to a particular place and then turn back. But for these Chinese and of course for the Americans who eventually who were the first people to walk in space, what exactly are you walking on? Is it gravel? Is it red sand? Is it snow? I'm trying to figure it out. Are the roads over there tired? How many Mondays? Is it like the beanie red sand? I don't know. Yeah, I can imagine it might not be walking as we imagined it because yes, they said they wore a 4.4 million dollar suit, which was really, really heavy. I'm not a space expert, but trust me, there's no sand or gravel or red sand. Yeah, so what exactly is it then? Beanie sand. Well, you could do more research about it. But we know that so many countries, the world powers, the China, the Russia, the US, have all scrambled to get a piece of space to be the first country. So why did they bring a little bit back? To be on space. And see, let's bring this back home. We have our Nigerian space agency. Why are we not doing anything to get our own Nigerian to be in space? Maybe they could send us out here to be the first Nigerian planting the Nigerian flag on space. Many people have been walking in space for a long time. That's funny. That's funny. It just is undocumented. Our people have been walking in space for a long time. Yes. So there's no need wasted money with what Nigeria Space Agency does. But there's a lot with what space exploration can do. People are looking for alternative places to inhabit. They say the earth is overpopulated. There's talks about space tourism and all of that. There's really lots of discussions about the science regarding space explorations. And yeah, more research really would teach us all more. Because definitely to the ordinary man, they say, oh, a man walks in space. What really is the import? But for world powers, it really is a thing of basically to show that you have the capability. Because you know what it takes to build a spacecraft, to build a space. That's really what this is. I mean, over four million dollars to build the suit, just to go into space. So it really just, in my opinion, one of the ways for world powers to show that they really have the might, the funds to do what they can and what they want. It feels like it's a competition between world powers. The US, China, and mostly in Russia. They've always had that competition somehow, somewhere. So I think that's also what this is about. I don't think that in our lifetime, we would ever be at a place where people can now move to space and live there. I don't think humans will ever be able to achieve that in our lifetime. Maybe in another lifetime, they will be able to pull that up. But for now, I don't think that that would be possible. It's still very, very, there's still so much research that needs to be done. And we also don't want to go back and go over there and bring back aliens, or bring back a new virus from space. But we know that back in 2016, there was news about Nigeria planning to send a man to space by 2030. No, yeah, they said we had opened our own space, that sends space satellites. And according to them, we use the satellites to track insurgents and that by 2030, Nigeria would send a man. Nigeria would carry out its planned space mission. No, really, for real. Even though it seems ridiculous. I mean, this is something that the government has definitely said. So Nigeria's minister of science and technology, Dr. Unaia Anu, we have him on tape saying this will happen by 2030. So just a few more years, you better start putting your beats for, you know, making it a space by 2030. A 12.5 kg of gas is 8,000 Naira now. A policeman was killed in Lagos not long ago. I think we have too many, too many problems. Did you think about, you know, wasted... Nothing stops us from dreaming big. Nigeria, eh, didn't even work. Nothing should stop us from dreaming big. If Nigeria says space exploration 2030, let's back that up. Once again, we've been doing it from my part of the country. And from sticks. Yeah, exactly. We've been wasting money. Stay with us when we come back. David Houndain will be joining us. He has, of course, released a very, very interesting investigative report on why Nigerian passports seem to be having challenges and a couple of booklets, rather, seem to be having challenges. We'll talk about that right after the short break.