Comrades:

You gotta check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_nKZl876k

or: http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/10/1...rom-kazakhstan/


Yesterday's Soyuz MC-2 Launch

Just the first minute and a half is good. Turn up the volume and listen when the turbo pumps spool up and the exhaust goes supersonic. The NASA feed always has some yahoo talking over this stuff; this is the Roskosmos feed.

After the rocket disappears into the heavy clouds, everything else is interior shots. And I notice the button-pushing stick isn't a piece of dowel anymore .

I have a cheap 5.1 CreativeLab Surround Sound on my computer and my children are already sick of me playing this over and over.

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I miss being SAM 062

Awaiting First Launch: Too numerous to count
Finishing: Zooch Saturn V; Alway/Nau BioArcas; Estes Expedition; TLP Standard
Repair/Rescue: Cherokee-D (2); Centuri Nike-Smoke; MX-774
On the Bench: 2650;
Dream Stage: 1/39.37 R-7

Did you see the guys by the tank car filming the launch? I know a telephoto lens compresses the depth of field and makes them look closer than they actually are, but they still aren't all that far away considering the amount of kerosene and LOX in front of them.

The cosmonaut in the upper part of the pic looks like he's fallen asleep reading the Sunday paper.



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They don't seem overly concerned with candy-a$$ed mamby-pamby safety, which I find refreshing.

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