Prabhupāda: That they have gone many times. It is not new thing. But they cannot stay there. They come back.
Hanumān: They cannot stay here, either, very long.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Hanumān: They cannot stay here very long, either.
Prabhupāda: Still, they can stay here at least. But there it is . . . (indistinct) . . . so how they can live there?
Hanumān: Well, they will bring everything from here, there. and then, then they can live there. (devotees laugh)
Prabhupāda: That is . . . (indistinct)
Śyāmasundara: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: First of all to go there, two million miles away?
Śyāmasundara: It is near nine, nine million miles.
Prabhupāda: Nine million. So the gasoline taken from here nine million to come back. That is the problem.
Hanumān: It is not exactly gasoline; it is solid. It is solid gasoline, Prabhupāda. It is solid, a kind of . . . very chemical . . .
Śyāmasundara: Yes.
Hanumān: . . . it is not exactly the same kind of chemical. And for a while also the Sputnik, they worked with the . . . the those . . . (indistinct) . . . in other words, they . . .
Prabhupāda: So why the astronauts are taking so much trouble? Why don't they stay? And they do not take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and go back to home? (laughter) What is the profit by doing such business, by bringing petrol from moon planet and use it here and drive motorcar? Why they are taking so much trouble?