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rhino369
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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Ea...
Yea that is surprisingly low, if accurate.
ceejayoz
on Feb 2, 2021
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I mean, they're both 200 foot long tubes full of fuel that gets used up by the end of the flight. Only so much carbon you can fit into a set volume.
hulahoof
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Agreed, though without considering it as such if someone asked me to compare to an airliner I would have placed it between 10-100x the emissions, and would not have been surprised at more!
bodhiandphysics
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Remember 3/4 of the rocket is just the oxygen for combustion!
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