Jim Oberg wrote:
"Pat Flannery" wrote i=
Here's an interesting photo of another Dnepr failing at lift-off (or cold
launch in this case) :
http://www.sploid.com/images/dneprygoodness.gif

Pat, the picture can't be 'real' -- the launch tube adaptors,
the pieces falling off to the side, come off as soon as it pops
and ignites, and it's still vertical at that point, there isn't time to
tilt over.

I sent this email -- we'll see if we ever get a response:



Just to confirm -- the tilting Dnepr rocket
at http://www.sploid.com/images/dneprygoodness.gif
is a cropped normal launch, made to look like it's going
off course, right? I don't want my news clients getting all
too excited as if it were a real image of a real event.

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com
NBC News space guy

It is fake. The original is on this page.
"http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/russia/vks.htm"

- Ed Kyle