Weather: Mostly overcast, with thunderstorms even yet closer (some drops), warmer and sometimes breezy (12 mph avg, 18 mph peak); low 10.3c (50.5 F) high 32.3c (90.1 F), humidity 24% at 4:00 pm.

Crew Physical Status: On course and steady.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: As usual, we were awake about 7 am, refilled and restarted SamG (the generator others named Stan yesterday, that Artemis called Wilhelmina, born "Honda" from a family of 6000 watts, the "Survivalist" series).

Don arrived about 7 am and confirmed that the diesel generator (Wendy) needed repair. He brought two extra jumper cables (send donations to the Mars Society).

Power has been nominal (which is not normal) all day, with batteries adding to SamG when we made bread. (This usage of "nominal" is defined as "informal" by my online dictionary, "(chiefly in the context of space travel) functioning normally or acceptably.")

We have reviewed priorities for the remainder of the week, including a rough schedule of activities starting Friday afternoon through Sunday.

Everyone has been working on assigned projects throughout the day: Rick maintaining and learning more about SamG and hab electrical system; John implementing the new voice commands (after an overnight compile of the revised recognition grammar); Ron and Mike working on the agent system; Maarten and Brent testing GPS and camera connections for iMAS (see Mission Info).

Paul continued to work on the aspect of an "executive" that interprets the procedure (in PLEXIL) to query external sources (e.g., astronauts) through the "collaborative infrastructure" (see Mission Info).

I uploaded yesterday's photos (more than an hour overall), handled NASA and Mission Support email, reviewed yesterday's data and fixed audio recording in the Crew Activity Analyzer (Rick re-soldered a microphone), and wrote a fairly long essay about just-in-time learning (see my "log").

I used the voice commanding system throughout the day from my stateroom, inquiring about the batteries, generator, inverter, and solar panel status. About 5 pm I learned in this manner that the generator was offline and relayed this to Rick, who went outside to investigate (generator had blown fuse). The next iteration of the system will provide alerts on the loudspeaker and to individuals through a bluetooth headset when such conditions occur.

Three of us took a nap this afternoon.

EVA: No sims.

Plans for Tomorrow: Begin testing new voice commands in practical situations.

Report Transmission Schedule:

1. Engineering report (by 9 pm)
2. GreenHab report (by 9 pm perhaps earlier)
3. CDR Journal (now)

Inventory: John baked bread for dinner.

Support Requested: Nothing beyond Don's work on the diesel.

Miscellaneous: Songs and rhymes go through my mind here. Last week it was "Everyone knows it's Vandi."

Bill Clancey
Commander, MDRS Crew 49