Re: Talk about close viewing area! It was close!

I have a friend who was at Baikonur for the launch of the Soyuz TMA-2 in
2003 as part of ISS Expedition 7, carrying Ed & cosmonaut Yuri
Malenchenko..



The Americans couldn't believe how close that the Russians let people get to
the pad at launch.



My friend was a mile away and he said some people were closer!



Cheers



Andy



Astronomy & Astronautics Lectures

Mr Andrew R Green B.Sc(Hons) FRAS.
Fellow Royal Astronomical Society
Director & Resident Astronomer StarDome
Director Anglo-Australian Astronomy Education Partnership



"Brian Gaff" <Briang1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So, I'm intrigued now. Not being able to see it of course, does anyone
know how close this person was, and I'd hope they were wearing ear
defenders at least.


Maybe they had a trap door to go down if something came their way!



Brian

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Soyuz_TMA-9_launch.jpg

Just imagine standing so close to the STS at launch time!



Yeah, I know there's a little bit of an optical illusion and the guy
isn't really standing next to the rocket, but even so it's extremely
close.


Even more interesting is an American flag mounted on a Russian rocket. I
wonder what launch that one was.

George





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