yet more foto browsing: Saturn 1B near-miss

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:06:04 -0600, Pat Flannery wrote:



kalev- wrote:

...Old news. In fact, IIRC, you were around when that one got brought up
the first two times, one especially when some newbie wanted to know why
NASA was launching so close to the VAB.



I'll bite?



It's not close to the VAB; the picture was taken from a great distance
with a telephoto lens so the Saturn and the VAB look close together (the
haziness of the image is a clue to the fact that there was a lot of air
between the camera and the scene).

Pat


Bingo. It's like certain angles shot during a baseball game on TV. The
camera BEHIND the plate makes it LOOK like the pitcher is REAL close
to the catcher instead of 60 feet away. IT's all perspective.

I've never seen the image before, it's really neat! Thanks

Tom Randy wrote:

Bingo. It's like certain angles shot during a baseball game on TV. The
camera BEHIND the plate makes it LOOK like the pitcher is REAL close
to the catcher instead of 60 feet away. IT's all perspective.

I've never seen the image before, it's really neat! Thanks



Wanna see that technique taken to extremes?:
http://ladysbugwhispers.blogs.sapo.p...o/moonrise.jpg

Pat

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Peter Smith wrote:
But still, the perspective is a bit wacked. If the crawler comes out of
the VAB and then turns left to Pad A/Pad B, how can the rocket plume
stretch down to the right (from VAB) of the main crawlerway? I guess some
launch pads were to the right. Does anybody have a link to the map?


Apollo 7 was the last manned mission that took off from Pad 34, which is
a good ways south of LC39.

Apollo 7 was the *only* manned mission that took off from Pad 34. Every
other manned Apollo mission was launched from either 39A or 39B,
including the four Saturn IB flights of Skylab and ASTP. And, of
course, Pad 34 was never used for Mercury or Gemini launches, it was a
Saturn IB pad.

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Tom Randy wrote:

Bingo. It's like certain angles shot during a baseball game on TV. The
camera BEHIND the plate makes it LOOK like the pitcher is REAL close
to the catcher instead of 60 feet away. IT's all perspective.

I've never seen the image before, it's really neat! Thanks



Wanna see that technique taken to extremes?:
http://ladysbugwhispers.blogs.sapo.p...o/moonrise.jpg

OMG! That tree is as big as the Moon! Either there are trees thousands
of miles high floating out in space, or the Moon is only 20 feet
around!!!

YOU CANNOT DENY THE EVIDENCE OF YOUR OWN EYES!!! WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO
OUR WHOLE LIVES!!! ONLY I AND MY SPECIAL POWERS OF OBSERVATION HAVE
DIVINED THE REAL TRUTH!!! WORSHIP ME, GODDAMNIT!!!!!!

//conspiracy-theorist-netkook-Guth-mode OFF//

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"The problem isn't that there are so | Doug Van Dorn
many fools; it's that lightning isn't |
distributed right." -Mark Twain