By the end of this year, the world's first space tourism is set to start. For some time, there has been concern over the carbon emissions that the space shuttle would create, but thanks to new technology, the founder of the space tourism firm has announced that the total emissions would equal less than the cost of a flight from Singapore to London. The materials used to build the shuttle are also environmentally friendly and made to reduce the amount of fuel burned during flights. Virgin Group, which also owns Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia, is set to form a market fund with Russia to begin investing in green technologies in the future as well as further reduce carbon emissions.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/05/14/space-tourism-won-t-hurt-environment-branson
-Yoko Imaishi
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