Space tourism won`t hurt environment: Richard Branson

Melbourne: Richard Branson has said that his firm Virgin Galactic`s rocket-powered space tourism flights will have only a minor impact on the climate change.

The billionaire businessman said that his team reduced the carbon emission of somebody going into space from something like two weeks of New York`s electricity supply to less than the cost of a economy round-trip from Singapore to London. He said that his new technology could dramatically reduce the carbon output and that is the challenge that his team have set. Branson asserted that the SS2`s lightweight carbon-fibre body will also "reduce fuel burn dramatically." ANI