Here’s a Rare View of the Soyuz Launch From the Hellish Flame Trench

NASA lensman Joel Kowsky find quite an unusual place to place up one of his remote controlled cameras for this good morning ’s Soyuz TMA-19 M rocket launch : the concrete flame trench , which is designate to vent the exhaust out .

Before this , I ’d never reckon the very first moment of a Soyuz Eruca vesicaria sativa ignition from this point of view – and the result is arresting . Thanks to this slam , you may observe the huge raging firing column under the launching pad platform , and the poisonous smoke cloud head toward the camera , expand towards the lightning - conductors and reflectors at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

The Russian rocket had the Expedition 46 work party aboard : Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency ( Roscosmos ) , Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA , and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA ( European Space Agency ) . Together , the squad will spend the next six months on the ISS .

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