View start 733-ton missile with a 30 m Bashny.Net

Starting the huge rockets even on TV looks impressive - power, roar, columns of smoke and flames emphasize the grandeur of man-made devices. However, much better and more effective it would be to observe the process and live as close as possible to feel this atmosphere. For obvious reasons, viewing platforms at arm's length from spaceports built not, and will not be able to approach too. But there is always. Photographer Ben Cooper (Ben Cooper) made these stunning images Delta 4 Heavy rocket height of 72 m (two thirds of the height of the Saturn V) and weighing 733 tons during its launch from Cape Canaveral (situated on the coast of Florida, USA) from the launch complex 37B 10 November 2007. Placed at a distance of about 30 meters from the rocket film camera was equipped with a sound system aktivatsii.



All the settings manually. The equipment was attached to a tripod, in turn associated with nylon ropes with three stakes driven into the ground. Cooper told himself, usually to the complex is not allowed to approach more than 5 km. As the camera did not have special protection, the lenses were destroyed. But the camera remained operational, despite the fact that the tripod with him upset and blasted an improvised sound device turned a few dozen meters from the point of attachment, stopped only hedge. But also sohranilos.