Little to close to a rocket launch

[www2]

[wkitty42]

yup, looked to be deep inside the danger zone there...

[Vuenno]

How did they get that close to the launch site? Isn't it scary that they managed to do that, apart from everything else?

[legoboyvdlp]

Probably a remote camera. As I understand there were many cameras around launchsites for monitoring of the launch. For instance, such a camera was used to catch footage of the flames shooting from the SRBS on the challenger disaster.

Note, I haven't yet watched the video so maybe I'm talking through my hat

[enrogue]

Looks like a handheld (it's moving) - probably a phone

I sincerely hope they had good earplugs in otherwise they'd have hearing damage at that distance.

If there had been a pad/low altitude explosion they'd have been in deep trouble