My nephew, Henry Jackson, is a scientist in the making. He has set BBC Radio 4’s Home Planet panel a tricky question. Nine year old Henry wanted to know about what damage space-rocket fuel was having on the ozone layer in our atmosphere.
Listen to the answers given on BBC Radio 4 (25th January 2011) as we are told that the future commercialisation of space could cause more damage than the technology causes at the moment. Also, discover how scientists cannot make a full evaluation of the damage because we do not know the mix of chemicals that is burned by Russian, Chinese and other nations’ rockets.
