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Snapshot
November 02, 2009
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When Ares 1-X rose from launch pad 39B a week ago, photographer Scott Andrews, who has shot every space shuttle launch except one, was there with an army of remotely operated cameras to catch the new rocket as it embarked on its maiden flight. For this black and white image, he had set his Canon 5D at a shutter speed of 1/200 of a second and an F-stop of 7.1 at ISO 200. He used a seismic trigger, a "trigger of my own design, a 'Scott Box' as they are somewhat affectionately known by; as long as they work, that is!" The camera was about 900 feet from pad 39A, where the space shuttle Atlantis awaits a November 16 launch on mission STS-129. Pad B lies another mile and a half in the distance. "It was my thought to show both launch pads," says Andrews, "sort of a hand-over from an old friend, the space shuttle, to the new kid on the block, Ares, stressing the fact that the shuttle is still going strong."
