Every time we go to space do we permanently reduce the total amount of oxygen on earth a little bit?

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You've taken matter away from the planet, but matter can transform.

Also, the planet gains matter every day from cosmic dust/etc falling into the Earth, so that may be used for the production of oxygen by plants for example, along with other stuff through photosynthesis.

So not permanent, but maybe temporary if anything.


Space is giving tons of resources to the Earth, literal thousands of metric tons every year I believe.
The answer would be No, since air on earth is constantly replenished by plants and micro-organisms in a perpetual brap cycle meanwhile shuttles and space stations use the same OGS systems for submarines that essentially recycle the oxygen supply perpetually(with some asterisks) within said spacecraft.
 
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You've taken matter away from the planet, but matter can transform.

Also, the planet gains matter every day from cosmic dust/etc falling into the Earth, so that may be used for the production of oxygen by plants for example, along with other stuff through photosynthesis.

So not permanent, but maybe temporary if anything.


Space is giving tons of resources to the Earth, literal thousands of metric tons every year I believe.
 
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Yes, but when we come back from space we take space oxygen from space's atmosphere back with us so it more or less evens out.
As far as anyone knows, earth oxygen is pretty much the same as space oxygen.
 
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You've taken matter away from the planet, but matter can transform.

Also, the planet gains matter every day from cosmic dust/etc falling into the Earth, so that may be used for the production of oxygen by plants for example, along with other stuff through photosynthesis.

So not permanent, but maybe temporary if anything.


Space is giving tons of resources to the Earth, literal thousands of metric tons every year I believe.
I did not consider the fact that we get random dust from spess all the time

thank for inform
 
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