Tony Muscatello

Time returned: EVA Team left at 12:15 pm MST (Andy, Jen, Heather and Tony) and returned to the Hab at 1:45 pm. The primary purpose of the EVA was to demostrate the EVA process for Nancy Lofholm, a reporter for the Denver Post Grand Junction office and Sean, her photographer. They arrived about 11 am and we gave them an tour of the interior of the Hab. They spoke with each crew member about their work. They appeared to be interested in all our activities and getting humans to Mars. Nancy took many pages of notes and Sean took lots and lots of pictures. We look forward to her article, which will be published in all editions of the Denver Post. The EVA was on foot to the hills west of the Hab.

Crew physical status: The crew is in outstanding physical condition with the possible exception of Heather Chluda, who has developed a couple of bruises from her fall on the steps yesterday. Crew morale is outstanding. This is a fantastic group!

Brief narrative of field mission results: The EVA Team climbed up the hills noting the geological sequence and found a few dinosaur bone fragment fossils. The team found worm tunnel fossils in the sedimentary rock in this sequence from the Jurassic Age.

Plans for next day: The entire crew will participate in building a rock wall to block the view of the generator and gasoline drums from the Hab and an wooden acoustic wall to minimize the noise from the generator. The construction will start in sim, using suits for photo ops and will be completed out of sim to save time.

Report transmission schedule: All reports planned by 11 pm MST

Maintenance: Andy: erected the flag on a mount on the ground next to the Hab, installed more effective suit racks and another shelf in the EVA room, and fabricated a landing and stairs for the back airlock. Steve and Tony: adjusted the Starband polarity to zero degrees and reinstalled the wooden donut around the top hatch. The internet link appears to be somewhat faster, but no quantitative measurements before and after the adjustment were made. Lamont refilled the water tank with 400 gallons. Andy refilled the interior tank.

EVA narrative/data/interpretations: See above brief narrative. Also see biology report for interesting results on samples previously collected – positive results for phosphate hydrolyzing hydrolase enzyme from endoliths.

Inventory: Transmitted shopping list to new crewmembers driving in from San Francisco area.

Miscellaneous: MDRS journal will be transmitted.