[FPSPACE] Perhaps this is just a trick of perspective...

[JamesOberg@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/1/00 1:19:54 PM Central Standard Time, lklaes@bbn.com 
writes:

<< ...but those folks watching the liftoff of ISS Expedition 1
 seem awfully close to the rocket in this image: >>

The observation point IS pretty close, less than a kilometer. When I've 
watched the Soyuz vehicles claimb into the sky, I've been shocked to have to 
tilt my head back much much farther than at KSC, where you're at least 5 km 
away, sometimes a lot more, and the pitchover occurs at an elevation angle of 
closer to 60 degrees -- at Baikonur, I'd say it was 80 degrees since I was 
closer to the base of the trajectory.