After this mornings engineering EVA, an "Emergency geological sampling EVA" was conducted by Flight Engineer Hutsteiner and Health Officer Groemer. This EVA is intended to provide a minimum set of geological samples in case the Earth Return Vehicle has to be used in the first few days due to technical problems. The EVA team went to waypoint 334, and then lost contact to the HabCom which has been routed through to Mission Control as a passive Skype-Broadcast. Mission control in Salzburg can listen in to EVA radio communications. Due to the loss of communication, MCC ordered an abort of EVA until visual contact between the Hab and the EVA-crew could be established again. Three samples were collected in total for further analysis in our brand-new glove-box.

Egress: 15:15
Ingress: 17:05
Maximum distance from the Hab: 900 m
EVA-CMDR: FE Hutsteiner
EVA-Team: HSO Groemer
Habcom/Suit-technician: XO Soucek