Magazine Article

Schefter, Jim. "Rocket's Red Glare." Popular Science Aug. 2000: 52-56. Web.

The article does exactly what its title and caption say it will do. A reporter takes reader inside a previously secret Russian rocket facility that was hidden from even American spy satellites during the cold war. It explains how they kept the facility so well hidden and kept the noise levels to a minimum. I found their methods of concealing it very intriguing as the building workings are explained; "The rocket's exhaust blasts into a cavernous containment, mixes with high-flow, high pressure water, then is routed through baffles and up the tower" (Schefter 55). I find this method amazing, but the cover picture shows a rocket blasting off seemingly space bound when the writing is about testing rockets out of public awareness. Another thing I found interesting was in the quote, "he's talking about transferring advanced technology from them to us. Role reversal, what a concept" (Schefter 56). The title on the cover seems to me to be a somewhat fearful phrase, but this quote makes it seem beneficial to us that the Russians have their rocket facility.