 | 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. |