| Reattaching the sun shield |
| I was bored, so I made a pocketwatch... |
| The Mark shrine. |
| Pre-flight preparation. |
| Mark and Frank inspect the payload. |
| The MLV in the hangar. |
| Switching to batteries. |
| The MLV coming in to pick us up. |
| Frank gets ready to put BLAST on the pin. |
| Picking up BLAST. |
| Putting the truck plate on the pin. |
| Mark inspecting the operation. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| Attaching the flight train. |
| BLASTers milling about. |
| The spool truck waiting for showtime. |
| The MLV. |
| Extracting BLAST. |
| Mark taking pictures. |
| Extracting BLAST. |
| Extracting BLAST. |
| BLAST outside. |
| Enzo. |
| A conversation. |
| BLAST. |
| BLAST. |
| BLAST. |
| Attaching the ballast hoppers. |
| David. |
| Barth. |
| The ballast hoppers. |
| BLAST with ballast and crush pads. |
| BLAST with ballast and crush pads. |
| Heading out to the pad. |
| BLAST on the MLV. |
| Heading out to the pad. |
| Heading out to the pad. |
| Heading out to the pad. |
| Heading out to the pad. |
| Holding. |
| Out at the launch pad. |
| The spool truck with the MLV behind it. |
| The MLV. |
| BLAST on the MLV. |
| BLAST on the MLV. |
| The Helium trucks drive out to the spool truck. |
| MLV and spool truck. |
| Getting light. |
| Getting light. |
| The MLV in the pre-dawn. |
| The MLV in the pre-dawn. |
| Another helium truck heading out to the launch site. |
| Very light. Note that the MLV has turned around. |
| Closer... |
| Closer! |
| BLAST hanging. |
| BLAST hanging. |
| Matt in front of BLAST. |
| Greg and Matt. |
| Dawn. |
| Dawn + BLAST = Photo opportunity. |
| BLAST and the MLV. In the distance, the NSBF crew is unrolling the tarps. |
| The base. |
| The parachute and release. |
| Parachute release mechanism. |
| Laying out the tarps. |
| Laying out the tarps. |
| BLAST with sun. |
| MLV with spool truck in background. |
| BLAST (again, surprisingly). |
| Launching a small balloon to test the winds. |
| Spool truck and tarps. |
| Working on the parachute release. |
| Marie waits for launch. Note the studded fleece. |
| Tarps for the balloon. |
| MLV and parachute. |
| Blowing. |
| Coming back. |