Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Ozone and the shuttle
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.173739.14805@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 17:37:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr12.163103.11472@welch.jhu.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr12.163103.11472@welch.jhu.edu> jimh@welch.jhu.edu (Jim Hoffman) writes:
>I have heard some rumors that the shuttle has caused more damage to the ozone
>layer than all of the CFCs combined.  How valid is this claim????

Invalid.  The sort of shuttle launch schedule that NASA had originally
envisioned -- i.e., 400 launches by the end of 1991 -- would be cause for
concern.  The SRB exhausts are pretty dirty.  But the effects of the real
launch schedule are insignificant.
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