Crew Physical Status: One crew member had a bit of temperature overnight but is on the way to recovery (no fever at lunch time anymore), the rest of the crew is doing fine.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Our fifth day at the MDRS, mostly devoted to internal activities, due to bad weather (rain and storm). The AustroMars Rover was successfully started up (after lengthy activities), tomorrow we will try to make all rover systems run.

EVA: None

Plans for Tomorrow: Continue with further tests of the AustroMars aerobot; set-up of the WLAN infrastructure set-up and continue with start-up of the AustroMars Rover test sequence.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report will be submitted around 20:30 via the web interface.
• The CDR report will be transmitted at 21:00.

Miscellaneous: WildBlue was not installed, we are eagerly waiting for the additional bandwidth to enable video transmissions out of the Hab.

Support Requested: None

More to follow.

Norbert Frischauf
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars"