| Hercules coming in to pick up BLAST. |
| BLAST waiting to be picked up. |
| Getting into position. |
| Getting into position. |
| Victor attaches BLAST to the launch vehicle. |
| Getting ready to pick-up. |
| BLAST off the ground. |
| The dart board after many attempts at determining the launch date. A histogram of the results favours a launch today. |
| BLAST gets taken outside. |
| Mark attaches the solar panel struts. |
| Mark attaches the solar panel struts. |
| Getting things ready. |
| The gate to the pad is down, and the red light is on: a good omen. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Getting ready to attach the SIP solar array. |
| Attaching the array. |
| Mark adds some stiffening aircraft webbing to the SIP array after it's put on. |
| Attaching the ballast. |
| Fully assembled and ready to launch. |
| Barth and Marie watch the proceedings. |
| Testing the ballast hoppers. |
| Testing the ballast hoppers. |
| BLAST central. |
| Getting some sun on the solar arrays. |
| Getting some sun on the solar arrays. |
| Getting some sun on the solar arrays. |
| BLAST with a pie ball behind it. The pie ball is the spherical, white balloon in the upper left. It tells us what the low level winds are like. |
| BLAST with a pie ball behind it. |
| BLAST with a pie ball behind it. |
| BLAST with a pie ball behind it. |
| BLAST hanging on the launch vehicle. |
| BLAST hanging on the launch vehicle. |
| BLAST hanging on the launch vehicle. |
| Mark at the reins. |
| BLAST hanging. |
| The helium truck and spool out on the finger. |
| Trucking the ground cloths out to the finger. |
| BLAST hanging. |
| BLAST hanging under a rain cloud. |
| BLAST hanging under a rain cloud. |
| Rain! |
| Jeff tells the boom operator where to go. |
| Marie and Gaelen go up to the roof for a better vantage. |
| BLAST on Hercules. |
| The balloon spool and helium tanker out on the finger. |
| BLAST on Hercules. |