"As a ballpark, one researcher has suggested that per person, a #space#tourism flight is 50-100 times worse for the atmosphere than a long-distance #plane flight."
Because:
"This is compounded by the altitude the gases are emitted at – a recent preprint (not peer-reviewed) study suggests that...
...0.22% of the upper #stratospheric#ozone could be lost from three years of space tourism, 👉which could “substantially offset” the progress done by the #MontrealProtocol.👈"
Pictures : "Langley engineers check out the interior of the #inflatable 24-foot #SpaceStation in 📆 1962.", #Bigelow#SpaceStation, #CrewDragon approaches #ISS Kibo laboratory https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langley_engineers_inside_inflatable_a_24-foot_spacestation_mock-up.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bigelow_Aerospace_facilities.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crew-2_dragon_approach.jpg
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight is about to launch (archive.is)
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, is scheduled to launch from New Mexico on 10 August