| Quarters. |
| Since it's right behind me, I've taken to playing freecell on the ROCC (a mind-bogglingly expensive computer bought by NASA used to interface with the SIP). |
| Enzo and Luca work on optics. |
| Matt prepares blue foam for sun shield panel creation. |
| Gaelen cuts mylar to length. |
| Matt cuts a piece of blue foam with a razor blade. |
| My reflection in the mylar. |
| Looking down at Matt. |
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| (7370x2261, 21662 kb) Gaelen and Marie cover blue foam panels with aluminised mylar to fabricate the sun shields. At left Marie's husband Adam works on (presumably) non-BLAST-related illustration. | |
| Gaelen tapes the edges of the panels. |
| Adam working in the highbay. |
| After giving it up for lost, we eventually found the old ROx BIAS jumper, which Matt re-designated the backup... |
| ... which we should never use again. |
| The sun shields fully panelled. |
| The sun shields fully panelled. |
| Two CSBF electronics crates set up in the highbay. On the left the TURFTS (TDRSS User Radio Frequency Test Set) and on the right the ROCC (Remote Operations Control Computer). |
| Chocolate. |
| A large number of warnings on the flight batteries. |
| The batteries mounted. |
| A warning sign on the side of ARCADE. |
| One of the recovery stickers on ARCADE. |
| Marie, Chris and Matt still making sun shield panels. |
| Chris's semi-automatic transmission. |
| Warning: don't try to hug the gate. |
| Fender washers. |