| A last view of the Japanese House. |
| A newspaper clipping from bygone times. (Actually it's something that Marie's husband, Adam, made for her. |
| The pivot once again off the gondola. |
| Enzo in the inner frame. |
| Enzo comes up with a new way of controlling BLAST. |
| Preparing the cryostat for removal. |
| The ROCC next to Galadriel and ecosmo. |
| Removing the cryostat. |
| Gaelen working under the gondola. |
| Venting helium. |
| Venting helium. |
| Matt attaches a hose to the helium tank exhaust. |
| Raising the pivot again. |
| Marie and Jaspaul rebalancing the inner frame after the removal of the cryostat. |
| Barth and Enzo discuss with the NSBF guys. |
| Mark installing the pivot shelf. |
| At dinner at the Penn House. |
| Larry, Curly and Moe. |
| David and Itziar. |
| The ostler's cat. |
| Jaspaul and Marie carefully transport one of the wings. |
| A little scorpion. |
| Gaelen, Jaspaul and Marie attaching panels to the sun shields. |
| Greg mounts the magnetometer. |
| Attaching more sun shield panels. |
| Almost all the sun shields are on the gondola. |
| Almost all the sun shields are on the gondola. |
| The inner frame surrounded by sun shields. |
| Matt poses with the gondola. |
| Marie and Jaspaul tape the sun shield panels. |
| The magnetometer packaged and ready to go. |
| A view from the side. |
| The NSBF guys prepare to pick up the gondola. |
| Going up to turn the truck plate around. The truck plate is the rectangular plate with the round hole in it which the crane is attached to. A bolt on the Mobile Launch Vehicle passes through that hole and that is how it hangs on the vehicle. |
| Going up to turn the truck plate around. |
| Releasing the gondola from the crane. |
| The bucket truck outside. |
| Frank, David and Barth watch nervously as the truck plate it turned around. The pivot is sitting on its shelf on the top of the sun shields. |
| About to turn the truck plate around. |
| The cryostat has wisely decided to sit this one out. |
| The truck plate is turned around. |
| Whew! They did it; now we're getting ready to transfer the payload to the Mobile Launch Vehicle (MLV). |
| Enzo prepares to lay Ethernet cable out to the Pi Frame. |
| Frank considers the operation as the MLV is moved into place. |
| The Mobile Launch Vehicle moving into position. |
| BLAST awaiting extraction. |
| The MLV in position. |
| Aligning the hook. |
| Aligning the hook. |
| Aligning the hook. |
| Frank walks up the MLV to attach the hook. |
| Coming back down after inspection. |
| Frank checking the alignment. |
| Attaching the hook to the truck plate. |
| Attaching the hook to the truck plate. |
| Enzo laying cable. |
| Attaching the hook to the truck plate. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| At the reigns. |
| Extracting BLAST from the High Bay. |
| BLAST just outside. |
| BLAST outside on the Mobile Launch Vehicle. |
| BLAST outside on the Mobile Launch Vehicle at dawn. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| The windmills silhouetted in the dawn light. |
| Moving the payload to the Pi Frame. |
| Moving the payload to the Pi Frame. |
| Moving the payload to the Pi Frame. |
| Moving the payload to the Pi Frame. |
| Moving the payload to the Pi Frame. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| BLAST hanging from the MLV. |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. (Note: it didn't suddenly get brighter, I just changed the exposure settings on the camera. It was just getting light when we began the operation and the sun was up by the time we finished.) |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. |
| BLAST from the front. |
| Getting ready to hang the gondola on the Pi Frame. |
| A view of the operation from further away. |
| Another. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| Jeff, Ed, Mark and Barth watch the operation. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| Barth, Mark, Jeff and Ed pose in front of BLAST. |
| Hanging the gondola. |
| The gondola hanging. |
| The gondola hanging. |
| The MLV moves out of the way. |
| BLAST hanging on the Pi Frame. |
| Pre-dawn. |
| BLAST hanging on the Pi Frame. |
| Pre-dawn. |
| The sun rises. |
| The sun rises. |
| Tying off the chain to keep it out of the way. |
| BLAST at sunrise. |
| BLAST at sunrise. |
| BLAST at sunrise. |
| From the front. |
| Ethernet routing out to the Pi Frame. |
| Hanging in the early morning. |
| Starting the pointing tests. |
| BLAST from the doors of the high-bay. |
| BLAST pointing away from the sun. We had to remove the chin in order to turn the gondola around. |
| Later in the morning, a hawk visits the airport. |
| One of the NSBF chase planes taxiing. |
| One of the NSBF chase planes taxiing. |
| Looking up between the secondary mirror struts at the primary at the pivot. |
| Cabling up the power supply to the gondola again in the evening after the test. |
| The window purge system mounted properly. |