From travelling to the remotest regions to cover various issues to paying local reporters honest wages to encourage them, we spend our money on where it matters. We are fiercely protective of our ‘independent’ status and would like to remain so: it helps us provide quality journalism free from biases and agendas. Now, we need your help to sustain what you started. Thanks to you, we have become Northeast India’s largest, independent, multimedia digital news platform. And we are not saying this: you, our readers, say so about us. Over the past four years, EastMojo revolutionised the coverage of Northeast India through our sharp, impactful, and unbiased overage. Virgin Galactic is aiming to launch 400 space tourism flights every year. It’s growing at an annual rate of 17.15%. But the suborbital transportation and space tourism market is expected to be worth US$2.58 billion by 2031. Space tourism rocket launches don’t currently compare to commercial airline flights in number. That’s more than twice the Paris Agreement’s recommended annual individual carbon budget. With a passenger limit of six, a Virgin Galactic launch emits 4.5 tonnes of carbon per person. However, the latter carries hundreds of passengers. This acts as a thin black umbrella absorbing solar radiation while blocking it from reaching Earth’s surface.Ī 1.5-hour Virgin Galactic flight generates emissions equivalent to a ten-hour trans-Atlantic commercial air flight. A 2022 study found space tourism produces black carbon particles that are almost 500 times more efficient at warming the atmosphere than all surface and airline sources of soot combined.Īfter being released into the upper atmosphere, the black carbon particles circulate for four to five years in a fine layer. Rocket emissions impact Earth’s atmosphere, temperatures and the ozone layer at an unprecedented level. While an eager space tourist consents to parting with US$450,000 to experience a profound connection with Earth, the planet itself has no say in receiving the massive pollution a single trip produces. Virgin Galactic promotes the Overview Effect on its homepage as an experience exclusive to space flight. ![]() Space flight has a huge environmental impact Shatner attributed his experience to the Overview Effect. ![]() Instead, he later wrote, he struggled with “the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered”. ![]() Shatner had anticipated emotions of celebration and joy when viewing “ mother and Earth and comfort” from space. In 2021, Star Trek actor William Shatner completed a suborbital flight with Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin. Today, commercial space tourism is increasing awareness of the phenomenon, particularly when experienced by celebrities with large platforms. Until recently, researching the Overview Effect has required interviews with professional astronauts. You are standing guard over the whole of our Earth. It isn’t important in which sea or lake you observe a slick of pollution, or in the forests of which country a fire breaks out, or on which continent a hurricane arises. With it comes a strong sense of compassion and concern for the state of our planet and the effect humans are having on it. The feeling of unity is not simply an observation.
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