Weather: And again - Sunny, calm, intense light and very clear; low 3.7c (38.7 F) high 26.7c (80.1F), humidity 8% at 6:00 pm. (Note: I am now using my own wireless instruments, as I determined that the readings provided by the instrument in the south window are not correct for outdoors. For example, the minimum it recorded today was 48.9F)

Crew Physical Status: Perhaps starting the rhythm I found in Crew 5, with good and bad sleep days alternating. Today people slept later and seemed more tired in the morning. However, we were extremely busy, the day went very quickly and we were productive.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Power agent system and Crew Activity Analyzer are both operational. Very busy with generator and GreenHab chores.

The CAA was fixed by reconfiguring the errant "listener" on the ceiling, thanks to help from Jim Murray at Foster-Miller. We are now recording audio and video, and will begin wearing the beacons tomorrow.

The power system agent is providing useful information through voice commanding. We generated several ideas for new capabilities and began to implement them. We're still hampered by the OneMeter's 15 min refresh rate, and have received no response from the manufacturer regarding the firmware upgrade. We've replaced the data storage used the power agent to our standard MYSQL implementation for more flexible handling of historical inquiries.

We saw Don Foutz today for the first time since Saturday (5 days). With his guidance, we made some changes. See the engineering report. The bottom line is that we had to conserve power for an hour after finding that the batteries would probably not last more than a few hours. Everything is working more or less fine.

Don also provided guidance to Paul and Vandi about pumps, following which Paul spent the morning replacing the pump used to transfer fresh water from the trailer to the permanent tank by a faster one. Much more work remains to be done with the GreenHab.

Procedure formalization continued, with one aspect shifting focus a bit to the demonstration we will be conducting in September, which will require integration with an "executive" program that interprets the PLEXIL procedures. Data required by the executive will be received by querying the agent system. Protocols and particular queries are being developed by Vandi.

Brent's EVA using iMAS has been delayed until a GPS unit is brought from Ames; the one we have appears faulty. We reviewed Shannon Rupert's and Penny Boston's experience from earlier in the season to avoid some problems they encountered putting the computers in day packs.

We are fielding media queries and working with Public Affairs to post a report on NASA's web site.

EVA: No sims today.

Plans for Tomorrow: Completion of Vandi's project; using CAA to track crew movements, designing significant additions to voice commanding (some of which might be implemented in the next week). Discussion of Maarten's personal agent model of crew activities.

Report Transmission Schedule:

1. Engineering Report.
2. GreenHab Report
3. CDR Journal
4. Journalist of the Day (Paul Tompkins)

Inventory: The many mice we saw last night appear not to have eaten anything.

Support Requested: A few requests have been sent by various crew members.

Miscellaneous: Mice are fascinating to watch, but also disturbing.

Bill Clancey
Commander, MDRS Crew 49