![Click to enlarge](img/th_2385.jpg) | The high bay after termination. Look how relieved everyone looks. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2386.jpg) | Starting to pack up. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2387.jpg) | Enzo, Jeff and Itziar at work on Tuesday. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2388.jpg) | Ed puts together the gondola cradle. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2389.jpg) | Barth's todo list is now half done. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2390.jpg) | David performs aerodynamics tests with a new design. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2391.jpg) | The gondola cradle, in addition to holding BLAST, can also be used as a handy coffee table. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2392.jpg) | Waiting around to welcome BLAST back. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2393.jpg) | BLAST returns Tuesday night. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2394.jpg) | Backing BLAST into the high-bay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2395.jpg) | Freeing the tarp. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2396.jpg) | Enzo checks to make sure the recovery team picked up the right gondola. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2397.jpg) | BLAST back in the high bay. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2398.jpg) | Getting the parachute out of the way. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2399.jpg) | Getting the parachute out of the way. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2400.jpg) | Removing the tarp. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2402.jpg) | BLAST looking not bad after its run-in with New Mexico. We're preparing to lift it off the trailer. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2403.jpg) | Random bits of BLAST in the bucket truck. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2404.jpg) | Getting ready to lift the telescope. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2405.jpg) | The cryostat in torpedo mode -- it didn't seem to mind termination and landing much. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2406.jpg) | Postflight BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2407.jpg) | Postflight BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2408.jpg) | Enzo removes the pressure vessel. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2409.jpg) | BLAST flies again (albeit lower). |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2410.jpg) | The Pressure Vessel waiting to divulge its secrets. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2411.jpg) | BLAST on the UBC gondola cradle. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2412.jpg) | Frodo and Sam post flight. Sam's SBC popped out of the backplane on chute shock, as did several other boards on both computers. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2413.jpg) | Ditto. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2414.jpg) | BLAST with primary removed. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2415.jpg) | Removing the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2416.jpg) | Venting the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2417.jpg) | Venting the cryostat. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2418.jpg) | Traffic tieups on the road to Albuquerque. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2419.jpg) | Many vehicles decided to turn around and try an alternate route. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2420.jpg) | We had a lot of trouble getting a truck to ship the cryostat and receiver up to Penn -- all the trucks were full of pumpkins. Here's a case in point. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2421.jpg) | The traffic was backed up for about two miles. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2422.jpg) | Having nothing better to do, I walked down the line to try and find the cause of the hold up. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_2423.jpg) | After about two miles of walking I found this. Aparently there was a multi-car pile-up. About a quarter mile past this bridge one lane of the highway is closed due to construction. Presumably the accident was caused by some incautious merging. |