Lanch safety issues - Russia Progress

[edkeffel]

<p>http://www.kosmonavtika.com/lancements/1978/20011978/20011978-1.jpg</p><p>Launch of the first Progress spacecraft, in 1978.</p><p>&nbsp;The rocket is almost 50 meters tall. Can anyone calculate the distante beetwen the laucher and the photgraphers?</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[qso1]

Without knowing the camera particulars, the only thing certain is that the photogs were some distance away. Otherwise the soundwave overpressure alone would kill them. I'd say a minimum of half a mile but more likely a mile unless the Soyuz/Progress SL-4 launcher is a quite one. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>