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Rocket Launch Pollution

With space rockets increasing in size and launch frequency, Vic asks what the environmental impacts of a rapidly growing space industry might be?

Whilst the globe struggles to shift to green sustainable energy sources, one industry has its sights set solely on the stars. Space X just launched the biggest rocket the world’s ever seen, and it won’t be their last even if it did end its test flight with a bang. As we enter a new golden age of space travel, Vic asks Associate Professor in Physical Geography Dr Eloise Marais if we are paying enough attention to the environmental impacts posed by a rapidly growing space industry.

Have viruses, bacteria, and microorganisms influenced humanity more than we know? Author of new book, Pathogenesis: How Germs Made History, Dr Jonathan Kennedy discusses how germs and disease have shaped human evolution, history and culture and what we can learn from the COVID pandemic.

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Presenter: Victoria Gill
Producer: Harrison Lewis
Content Producer: Ella Hubber
±«Óãtv Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

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  • Thu 20 Apr 2023 16:30
  • Thu 20 Apr 2023 21:00

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