Crew Physical Status: crew member still on the way of recovery, light temperature after breakfast, therefore, as prevention procedure, crew member continued recovery at motel.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Various activities inside the hab, including preparation of laboratory area, clean-up of EVA room, installing of airlock light, finalisation of window sealing, installation of battery terminal and scouting for rover operation area (scouting from 1000 to 1100 with all 3 ATVs). On the AustroMars experiment side, the Rover testing preparation was still continued as some electrical problem was discovered this morning (Cdr N. Frischauf and Austrian rover team are working on overcoming the issue). Public outreach activity in the morning during a live telecon with the Austrian Secretary of State Mr. Eduard Mainoni while the latter one was visiting the MCC Salzburg.

EVA: 1. EVA Crew: G. Groemer (HSO, EVA Cdr), Ch. Kandler (MSP), A. Soucek (XO). Procedures testing for GeoMars in Hab vicinity, combined with media activities (foto shoot with New York reporter). Then, EVA crew returned to Hab, XO ended EVA, after safe closing of airlock HSO and MSP continued EVA with ATVs #2 and #3 to look for GeoMars sites app. 7 km from Hab down the lower road. EVA time 1630 to 1830 (2hrs; for XO 1630 to 1730 1hr). No anomalies, no special events, all equipment and suits nominal.

Plans for Tomorrow: finalise hab interior for mission start, procedure testing for all experiments, finalisation of OSS Procedure Document for submission, WLAN testing, Rover testing, SAR EVA.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report will be submittted at 21:00 latest via the web interface due to high work load of flight engineers.
• The CDR report will be transmitted at 21:00.

Anomalies: 2.

1. Power generator Wendy breakdown: nominal switch-off yesterday evening, nominal start today at 0815, nominal switch-off at 1200. When attempting to start Wendy at 1600, this attempt and two more failed. After three start attempts strictly following the procs, no more attempt was undertaken according to procedure. ET was informed. Meanwhile two cars are running outside the hab and loading the hab batts, an idea agreed with by ET. Flight engineers suspect that water is in the fuel as white smoke was visible during start attempts. They are asking if a water drain shall be performed and if so, to receive exact procedures.
2. ATV # 1 problem: During rover scouting in the morning, "check belt" light flashed, and afterwards ATV could not be restarted except manually (which was necessary to return). ATV # 1 was then not used any more for afternoon EVA. ATV manual give hints on problem but engineers ask for permission to open ATV and check drive belt before proceeding.

Miscellaneous: WildBlue was still not installed, but should be done tomorrow.

Support Requested: ATV #1 green light for following ATV manual instructions or otherwise procedures to continue. No response email was received following the support request email sent at 1440.

More to follow.

Alexander Soucek
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars," on behalf of CDR