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Originally Posted by Clippo
Secondly, the rocket fuel was almost certainly not ‘carbon’ based.
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The fuel used was in fact:
RP-1, a refined kerosene fuel + LOX for the first stage of flight, ie carbon based.
Super-cold liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX) further stages - used a lot of carbon in it's production.
There's no such thing as a carbon free space-flight!