[FPSPACE] How to find photoshopped view of Buran in orbit

[gorski]

Jim,

http://www.k26.com/buran/Info/1st_Flight/the_flight.html has the same
image, courtesy the search engine David Rickman posted about--which is a
really neat toy, actually.  Though I figure it's got to be
computer-expensive enough that I figured I'd post the link here for
everybody.

The page contains the line:
  SOURCE: Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight by Dennis Newkirk.
and
  All image from www.buran.ru.
... I don't, at first glance, see that image on buran.ru , but it might
have been since removed in a site update.

In any case, it appears on the k26.com page right next to an even more
obviously not "spy satellite" picture of Buran at reentry.

The other arguments against that picture have been mostly mentioned here I
think--the lighting on Buran and the lighting on the earth are not coming
from the same angle, and the shadow on the left side of the fuselage isn't
nearly sharp enough to have been taken in space, MAYBE the doors would be
open in ordinary on-orbit flight, etc.


and in the end--why take such a photo in space, when there are so many
cheaper ways to get it?


hope it helps,

--Chris.



-- 
Christopher Gorski
gorski at ctc.net