This Insane Photo Destroyed A Camera Lens
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.
Well, that’s awesome. [Airliners.net, Thanks, Jason!]
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Check out NASA’s website. They have a video there explaining the procedure used by the Post Launch crew – these guys go to the pad while it’s still smoking and begin the cleanup. They describe how light fittings, loud speakers and all kinds of things have been ripped apart, blown away or melted after each launch.
“No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.:
Except for the astronauts, of course.
Here’s what the Delta launch looks like from Tampa http://s843.photobucket.com/albums/zz351/jgroulx/Delta%20Rocket%20Launch/?albumview=grid&fullsize=DSC_0209.jpg 125 miles away