| Gaelen shows off his mini-BLAST. |
| Matt parks the car. |
| Gaelen in his NSBF hat. |
| MLV coming to pick up BLAST again. |
| Picking BLAST up. Note the BLAST art. |
| JPL is old-school. |
| Payload on the pin. |
| BLAST outside. |
| Wheeling the ballast hoppers out. |
| Attaching the ballast. |
| Photographing from the stairs ... Mark Halpern got a great shot of the gondola from this vantage during an earlier launch attempt, so all of us photographs had a go at it... |
| More aerial photography. |
| Attaching ballast and crush pads. The view from the stairs. |
| Attaching ballast and crush pads. The view from the stairs. |
| Attaching ballast and crush pads. The view from the stairs. |
| Attaching ballast and crush pads. The view from the stairs. |
| BLASTers watching the operation. |
| Gondola pre-flight. |
| Gondola pre-flight. |
| Gaelen taking pictures. |
| Gondola pre-flight. |
| Preflight. |
| Preflight. |
| Removing the ballast truck. |
| Parachute box on the front of the MLV. |
| Parachute box on the front of the MLV. |
| Unrolling the antennas. |
| Gaelen sez: "It's not as comfortable as it looks." |
| Gondola at launch height. |
| Gondola at launch height. |
| Out at the launch pad. |
| Out at the launch pad. |
| From behind. |
| From behind. |
| Fog! |
| Fog + flash = bad picture. |
| Even more fog. |
| A view of the spool truck. |
| David checks out BLAST in the fog. |
| David checks out BLAST in the fog. |
| BLAST. |
| Coming back in to dry off. |
| Coming back in to dry off. |
| Coming back in to dry off. |
| The JPL guys moving out. |
| Removing crush pads and ballast. |
| Removing crush pads and ballast. |