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Matt grills up some peppers for our Friday night barbeque.
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A thermometer attached to the back of the primary mirror.
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Every time I print to the printer in the lounge, this error message
pops up, about 30 seconds after it finishes printing.
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Mark inserts Jeff's super-ruler through the hole in the secondary mirror
to measure the cryostat-to-secondary distance.
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Mark hands Jeff cables after installing the inner frame electronics.
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Matt, Mark, and Jeff perform a helium transfer.
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Matt and Mark transferring nitrogen.
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Barth shows off his cable-making hand.
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Jeff and Matt look and the uncovered primary mirror.
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Mark, in Slim Pickens mode (Yeeeehaaa!), moves the star cameras all
the way back for balancing purposes.
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Mark performing more death-defying acrobatics. If you look closely,
you can see me taking the picture in the middle-left of the mirror,
and Jeff, Matt and David in the upper-middle of the mirror, all
upside-down, of course.
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Matt paints the back of the solar panels, so that they can radiate
away their heat during flight.
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Don tightens bolts on the support struts for the sun shield wings, or
cheeks, as to which I think they should be referred.
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BLAST poking out the door, just shy of midnight, for alignment
tests.
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Sunset or Sunrise, or possibly both. One of the helium trucks (for
filling the balloon) is in the foreground.
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Still testing alignment (shortly before 1 am). (Yes, it's blurry... I
don't have a tripod.)
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