Yesterday Matt took a ton of pictures (and I took a few). Most of them feature Elio, often without a shirt, or Natalie. The main business of the day was rearranging antennas to make room on the top of the sun shields to attach the old/omnidirectional sun sensor (OSS) up there too. Joseph also mounted the TDRSS High Gain Antenna (HGA). The rest of the day was spent waiting for clear skies, waiting for the cryostat to cool, and about the usual assorted business.
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- Natalie attaches the Chinese hat/ground shield to the sun sensor
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- She does this during a group meeting
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- During the meeting I see the HGA being lifted
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- The meeting ends a few minutes afterward. Joseph and Larry are still up on the cherry picker
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- Our pantry
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- Elio changes into a new shirt for special pictures. There were several more pictures of him shirtless
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- Then he poses with the shirt near the main sign (and also the water tower)
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- Elio makes sparks fly
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- Natalie harnesses up. There was a lot of confusion about the combination of harness and dress and lifting. Natalie assures us men just don’t understand dresses
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- She loads her cargo. As the sensor lady, she gets to ride the lift to install the OSS
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- Larry drives. He’s a good lift driver
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- The whole time Natalie was completely, adorably super-excited
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- They arrive at the top
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- Natalie attaches the OSS
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- One of another series of Natalie photos, this time with the SBSC
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- A CSBF solar panel mount, bolted to BLAST’s foot
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- The position of the mounted OSS
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- A slightly better view, from the vantage point of a ladder
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- The OSS, as seen from the top of the sun shields
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- The recently mounted HGA
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- The bulbous silver protrusions inside the HGA
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- The electronics even deeper inside the HGA
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- Dollhouse-like desks in the CSBF offices above the highbay
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- More antennas, on the other side of the pivot
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- The Crane
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- Me
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- Elio shirtless after a run. There were so many of these pictures, I had to include at least one
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- Tristan lounging (with his feet up towards Natalie in the way she likes oh-so-much)
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- Me working. This does happen on occasion
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