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When you compare the pre-launch photo of equipment on the left to the post-launch photo on the right you can see just how powerful the exhaust blast from the rocket is. Besides the corrosive fuel residue caking the lens, you can see the bottom of the container has been strained apart. Kelly Calagna/MEDILL