Study Shows Suborbital SpaceTourism May Warm Poles

Soot from hydrocarbon-fueled rockets flying tourists on suborbital junkets may contribute to significant warming at the Earth’s poles, if the business plans behind the nascent space-tourism industry are accurate. A study funded by The Aerospace Corp. and NASA finds 1,000 suborbital flights a year—...

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