| Three of the riggers wait to pickup. |
| Preparing BLAST for pickup. |
| Preparing BLAST for pickup. |
| Chris goes through his pre-pickup checklist. |
| Preparing BLAST for pickup. |
| The launch vehicle in position to pick up BLAST. |
| The view from outside. Most of us are just milling about, waiting for the pickup. |
| Waiting for pickup. |
| Barth waits with BLAST. |
| Marie attaches one of the solar panel struts. |
| BLAST in the door. |
| Pickup. |
| Preparing to ram the gondola with the launch vehicle? |
| Jim, Chris and Nathan test their receivers. |
| The SIP solar array sitting on crush pads ready for installation. |
| BLAST in the doorway. |
| A rain cloud looms on the horizon. |
| Up close and personal with Hercules. |
| Paul filming. |
| The launch vehicle in high speed configuration. (Actually, they just lowered the boom in preparation for laying the flight train on it.) |
| Hercules and BLAST. |
| A view inside the Basilica where the parachute (foreground) and balloon crate (further back, on the trailer) await. |
| Pushing the gondola back inside, out of the rain. |
| Back inside. |