Log Book for January 19, 2011
Commander's Report
Virgiliu Pop Reporting
We all woke up at about 9 AM (we are late-risers, yet
hard-workers), then we had breakfast - tortillas with peanut butter
and jam (to Iulia's delight).
Haritina's morning engineering round
resulted in the discovery of a grey-water pipe leak, patched by her
and Dragos. Mars is indeed hostile - the plumbing situation is in dire
need of being fixed. Apart from being one crew member short, the
permanent resident of the hab - (the) John is not cooperating.
Haritina then discovered a stowaway - or is it martian life? - a
little mouse!
Afterward we tried to fix the rover - it is not broken,
but we have a power converting issue: 110 to 220 volts.
At 3 AM, the
science team started to prepare for the EVA, and took the commander
along in his first EVA. Mars is beautiful, yet very tiring - one can
be Captain Cook, yet one cannot be a cook and go on the EVA in the
same day! This was discovered once the commander returned, very
tired, and was unable to 'cook' food, having to violate mission
protocol and prepare some dehydrated food. I wonder if previous crews
encountered the same problem!
We did not eat as yet. We are all writing our reports. The engineers
did their round and at 8 pm we'll eat. We may have an early night,
apart from Haritina, whose love for the stars is far greater than her
exhaustion.