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Right, but at least the capsule, which goes through atmosphere and keeps people inside, doesn't have the toxic substance.

It's not saying Soyuz is perfect, or near that. It's about Crew Dragon - the spacecraft could use already existing ways to avoid toxic materials in operations, and it wasn't done. And it's hard to do after the design is complete. So we can reasonably hope for the next spacecraft to be better - fortunately trying to make Starship refuelable on Mars and limiting propellants to LOX and methane works for the goal of reducing toxicity.



The way to do that requires throwing away the entire engine section which it a lot of equipment when you're trying to make a commercially viable option and need to reuse as much as possible.




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