Eamonn Holmes was left stunned this morning on GB News as a space expert informed the presenter when we can expect Nasa buildings on the moon.

Sitting down on GBN Breakfast with Eamonn and Ellie, the two People’s Channel stars marvelled at Nasa’s latest plans to send their astronauts to not only visit, but live on the moon as well.

The space-travelling scientists will reside inside glass bubbles composed of lunar dust, which is essentially made upof soil, rocks and mineral fragments on the moon.

Space expert Will Whitehorn told GB News stars Eamonn and Ellie Costello the timeframe he expects the leading space agency to adopt when it comes to the bringing the theoretical idea to life.

Projecting that the move will take place by 2033, he said: “I think that it will likely happen because the moon has helium three on it, which could be the safe way to produce nuclear power on earth.”

“And helium three can only be good on the moon,” to which Eamonn was left speechless, simply exclaiming: “Gosh!”

He further projected that solar power from space will take place within the next ten years – an industry that has been rapidly growing in the UK after the Government committed to generating three times the amount of solar power across the next five years.

“And a British company is one of the lead companies in that called Space Solar in Oxford, who’ve got some government money luckily now and need to raise more private money. There’ll be solar server farms,” Mr Whitehorn added.

The GB News presenter was further shocked when Mr Whitehorn told the duo that 60,000 people in Britain are currently employed in the space industry – with exports at around £4billion.

Visibly taken aback, he said: “No, we didn’t know that.”

The expert further said the “hugely growing” industry was undergoing a “rapid” transformation.

Asked who would own the data centres, Mr Whitehorn first clarified: “The moon is officially not owned by anyone.

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“There is a treaty. But they’re all going to start staking.

“The Chinese have already been around the dark side. They’ve planted a flag and put some instruments. Everyone’s going to start staking.

“The Chinese are going back to the moon. India wants to go to the moon.”

He subsequently dubbed the international competition to be the “new space race”.

The scientific yet seemingly fantastical glass bubbles will be composed of polymers, which are able to reshuffle if any breaks were to occur by “moonquakes” or, as they are more scientifically known, micrometeorites.

The bubbles might also out be built with solar panels so that they can generate their own energy.

It has also been theorised that astronauts could plant vegetables and plants, creating an entire ecosystem to produce oxygen.

However, several layers of the bubble would have to be installed to do so, with one warm and one cool surface to drive condensation.