Crew Status: Everyone is OK but tired as today was a very intense day with media representatives to make use of the excellent weather. Major concern of the moment is the weather forecast, which could possibly ruin some of our foreseen experiments for the next few days.

Major Anomalies: None (besides continuous Internet outages)

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Our third day at the MDRS was mostly devoted to public outreach activities. Four more days until the real AustroMars mission will start. Media representatives came along with us on a dress rehearsal EVA and did some interviews. Wendy got fixed again (by Don and our Backup Flight Engineer) and the internet connection seems to be working better today. We also fixed the Webcam MDRS Hab Cam East, so it doesn't provide overexposed pictures. The artistic AustroMars experiment called "Fields of Mars" was started successfully.

EVA: EVA01 took place in the vicinity of the hab and then to the waypoint WPT 324 of Crew 47 (with the ATVs).

Plans for Tomorrow: Continue with the outreach activities for the Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation (ORF), further construction and tests of the AustroMars aerobot as well as the Rover. Additionally, we will work on the MedMars Telemetry construction, TV shots if the weather permits, Fix Wendy's broken battery clamp.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report will be submittted around 20:00 via the web interface.
• The other reports (CDR, EVA) will be transmitted also around 20.00.

Miscellaneous: We had three visitors passing by, who just saw some of us in the space suits and became interested. We toured them through the surrondings and led them to our astronauts. In return the Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation (ORF) interviewed them to also get an outsider view.

Support Requested: None

More to follow.

Norbert Frischauf
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars"