'Tiny Tim" brings our telescope to the launch pad.

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The balloon is inflated with helium and 'Tiny Tim' (what the launch crew calls the release vehicle) and our telescope begins it's rise to 100,000 feet.

A rough landing.

Constructing the telescope in our NASA lab in NYC

More of the same.

And yet more construction.

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Note the Spock Ears. I wore them a whole day in the lab and no one noticed.

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