Picture Gallery for Fri 2003-08-29 19:20:24 UTC

	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 is 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.