Picture Gallery for Sun 2003-09-28 02:58:21 UTC

	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.