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Reducing carbon emissions is a good thing but the emissions from a typical launch are on the same order of magnitude as flying a jumbo jet across the Pacific and rocket flights are much less frequent than that. The biggest environmental concern is the damage to the ozone layer that solid boosters cause.


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