Posted on 10/01/2009 5:04:17 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Photographer Ben Cooper took this photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launching at Cape Canaveral using a sound-activated camera. And when your camera is that close to a launch, your lens probably won't survive.
The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually. No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.
Pretty spectacular shot.
i wanna see the Space Shuttle.
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Very cool stuff!
The Shuttle should be in a museum.
This Launch Vehicle may be the next step ahead for manned spaceflight.
This photograph was taken with a growl activated camera using ISO-400 oogly filter. Neither the camera nor the photographer survived the exposure, the picture was instantly down loaded to a special militarized high speed drive. The photographer and camera were instantly turned into a pillar of salt. Naturalist speculate that this is a species thought to have become extinct in the 1960's which has recently been sited along the banks of the Potomac.
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I was walking through a parking lot a few years ago and happened go look down toward MacDill AFB and lo and behold there was the 747 with the shuttle on its back on final approach to MacDill. Turns out the Cape had been hit with some afternoon thundershowers and they decided to spend the night in Tampa and finish the flight the next day.
I can't begin to tell you what a tremendous sight that was! Wow is the only word I can think of to use and it's way too mellow.
That experience set me to thinking how neat it would be to put one of them on the back of the 747 and fly it around the country for a year or so, stopping at anyplace that had a runway that could accommodate it. And for other areas they could make some low altitude, low speed passes to give people a chance to say they had seen it.
It would cost a fortune, but I can't think of a better way to spend some of my tax money than letting the people who have funded this fantastic program for all these years get a chance to stand near it and take in the thrill.
It might even be possible to pay the cost through private donations, especially if the project were taken on by a national organization like the American Legion or VFW.
With all that's going on these days in our country it's getting harder and harder to find something that can lift our spirits. Seeing one of those magnificent machines sitting on the tarmac at 100 or more airports across the country certainly couldn't hurt!
Wow!!
Took my kid to see the space shuttle go up this summer. It was a real pain because they rescheduled it 6 times, and you must be there about 5 hours before the launch. If you take the bus to the watching site, and then they cancel, you don’t get a refund. The tickets cost $90 per... They did, however, give us a coupon for the next launch at a reduced rate, though, but apparently that is not automatic.
Having said all that, it was definitely worth the final result. It was very interesting & dramatic.
You can see it for free from the causeway in Titusville, but its about 15 miles away. Hard to see the rocket on the ground, but once it gets into the air, you definitely know it.
I am pretty sure I know this guy. I once sold him a lens cap for a large lens. Also bought a 2X teleconverter from him.
A nice kid who didn’t have a lot of money. He may have been successful enough that he does now.
Wow! Great shot!
I suspect that the Delta IV Heavy will be the workhorse of the new Age of Commercial Space Travel.
“The Shuttle should be in a museum.”
The Shuttle still does something that no other launch vehicle can do — bring tens of thousands of pounds of payload back to earth. Constellation, the EELVs and even the Side-mount Shuttle/Shuttle-C cannot do that. And yet space flight is still in its adolescence until we both have downweight capability — and a need for downweight.
“This Launch Vehicle may be the next step ahead for manned spaceflight.”
The Delta IV Heavy could easily carry an Orion capsule. It is not being considered for that purpose for reasons similar to those seen in the 1950s when the country insisted on using the Vanguard to launch our first satellite instead of the Redstone/Juno. Only this time it is not that we want to put satellites into orbit with civilian rather than military missiles. It is that NASA feels that you cannot use a a commercial vehicle to launch manned vehicles rather than a NASA-developed vehicle because grubby “for-profit” commercial corporations lack the right stuff.
That is one amazing photo!
Aaaaahhhahahahaha!!! Well done, thanks for the laugh!
1) It’s pretty rotten to make fun of a woman’s looks.
2) You got me to laugh. Nice job!
That really is a kick a$$ shot.
I was fortunate enough as a kid to have a neighbor that worked for Rockwell and his family and mine had the opportunity to see one of the space shuttles up close on the ground before any of them had ever seen space flight. It was amazing!
Wow. Thanks for posting!
Wowie wow wow!
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