Gallery: Preparing to photograph Delta launch

Photographers for United Launch Alliance, the LA Daily News and Spaceflight Now set up their sound-activated cameras around Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 2 pad to cover the Delta 2 rocket blasting off with the NPP climate and weather observatory.

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Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now

LOOKING AROUND SLC 2 PAD >

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