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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: booster pollution
Message-ID: <2003@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jan 90 10:14:01 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.164939.29641@utzoo.uucp>
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From article <1990Jan15.164939.29641@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> The main problem is that solid rockets put out all kinds of garbage, some
> of it with enough chlorine content to possibly be an ozone issue.

I read in the UK-based "Green Magazine" that every Shuttle launch causes
the eventual destruction of 1 million tonnes of atmospheric ozone due to
the chlorine compounds in the SRBs. Can anyone confirm or (hopefully)
deny this?

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