Picture Gallery for Thu 2006-12-21 05:36:32 UTC

	Picking up.
	Picking up.
	The Boss.
	Picking up.
	Picking up.
	BLAST ready for pickup.
	Rolling outside.
	Pick-up.
	Pick-up.
	The Boss.
	Unfolding the solar arrays.
	Forking over the ballast hopper.
	BLAST on The Boss.
	BLAST on The Boss.
	BLAST on The Boss.
	Solar arrays pointing at the sun.
	BLAST on The Boss.
	BLAST on The Boss.
	Out on the pad.
	Out on the pad.
(13544x1264, 8222.89 kb) Ed and Enzo walk out to the launch vehicle after rollout.
	Awaiting inflation.
	Awaiting inflation.
(7216x1288, 4727.28 kb) Awaiting inflation.
	Awaiting inflation.
	Awaiting inflation.
	Awaiting inflation.
	Laying out the balloon.
	Attaching the parachute to the flightline.
	Looking down the flightline. You can see the balloon (in its protective pink plastic) unrolled unready. The next step is to unroll the parachute.
	BLAST.
	Start of inflation.
	Inflation.
	Panning around the pad during inflation.
	Mark explains what's going on for the camera(s).
(6760x1424, 4840.88 kb) Early stages of inflation.
	Inflation.
	Me and inflation.
	Me and BLAST. I get around.
(3584x1304, 2364.73 kb) Late stages of inflation.
	Barth and Enzo head out to the pad to watch launch.
	Inflation complete.
	Waiting for launch.
	Waiting for launch.
	Launch!
	BLAST goes up.
	BLAST goes up.
	Checking things out on the way up. A stressful time.
	Checking things out on the way up. A stressful time.
	Mark calculates our sensitivity from our first calibration map.
	Kstars tracks BLAST scanning a source in Vela.