Crew Physical Status: sick crew member fully recovered with MCC flight surgeon permission to resume all activities.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: final preparation of Hab for commencement of simulation. Rover preparation was successfully finished, hardware and software are running and the rover made its first movements outside. This was possible due to the immense work of CDR Frischauf and the Rover Team in Austria who spent more than 20 hours since April 5 to cancel out deficiencies. Part of the crew set up the WLAN some 600m down SE in direction WPT "Hab View". The WildBlue Antenna was installed. The Switch-x software for outreach activities in Austria was installed and tested. Our "part-time crew" (TV team, newspaper contest winners, artist) left early afternoon, leaving just Crew and OSS at Hab site. OSS procedures during Simulation were finalised together with Mission Control in Denver and MCC Salzburg. There was a Public outreach activity in the morning during a second live telecon, this time with the Gouvernor of the Federal State of Salzburg, Ms. Gabriele Burgstaller, during the MCC-organised "Mars Party" in Salzburg, involving dozens of guests, families of the crew, VIP, etc.

EVA: none. (SAR EVA had to be cancelled due to continuing anomalies with the power generator [Wendy] on which crew efforts are still focusing).

Plans for Tomorrow: Start of simulation at 0500.

Report Transmission Schedule:

• Today's engineering report will be submitted at 2000.
• The CDR report will be transmitted at 2030.

Anomalies: 1. The Power generator Wendy is again broken: Wendy was started this morning at 0800 without problems, after an extensive and tiring work night involving the entire crew until 3a.m.; from 0030 to 0730 Coleman was running and the power consumption in the hab was reduced to a minimum, resulting in a ghostly atmosphere with only torches and the green airlock light for several hours of nighttime activity. Many thanks at this point to Paul Graham who assisted the crew the entire night via Skype chat. However, after having been successfully re-activated this morning, Wendy broke down at 1500 completely unexpected during activity. The crew hopes that all efforts were not in vain, and currently efforts concentrate on how to bring Wendy back to life in time for Mission start, which will be a challenge.

Miscellaneous: nothing.

Support Requested: Urgent support needed to solve power generator problem substantially in order to allow for a successful start of the mission!

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