Expedition One was an unqualified success in terms of the crew setting their own goals and accomplishing them. Pre-planning for Phase Three was not as extensive as it was for Phases One and Two. The intent was for individual researchers to come up with their own research objectives prior to the start of Expedition One. Then, once we were at MDRS, the crew would, in daily planning meetings, determine how to meet these goals. This task driven approach was used in contrast to the heavily structured first phases in order to best implement the lessons learned during the first two weeks. Flexibility in both research and approach to research was required.

In January 2003, all crewmembers submitted informal plans for Phase Three. The crew used these objectives during the week to plan daily activities and EVAs. What follows are the crew's original goals, written prior to ExOne. In each case, these goals were met. I have included some of the additional work accomplished by phase three crewmembers following their original statement of goals. Without exception, they accomplished much more than they set out to do.

Rocky Persuad, Geologist: I will be looking at all the video and datalogger data from phases I and II. Work on papers on the operational investigations (or at least gather the data). May need to redo or makeup some of the operational experiments, so would need other crewmembers to help, but that can be scheduled as needed. I imagine we'll think up of new ops to try too.

Rocky was able to begin analysis of these data and we were also able to complete three rescheduled EVAs from phases one and two, including an overnight EVA in the Everest. He also spent some time with the film crew.

Jennifer Laing, Public Relations: I will be primarily videoing EVAs or experiments during Phase 3, along with Steve Dawson. Graham Mann particularly wants me to film his rover experiment. I am also happy to help out in any other way that I can. Plus I told Jon Clarke and Steve that I am Entertainment Officer!

Jennifer spent two days assisting a film crew who were on site to film us for a French television show. She had sent the film crew enough pertinent information about us prior to their arrival so when they arrived they were well prepared to make an intelligent, quality piece about our mission. She also serve as the contact person at the Hab during an outreach event with the San Diego Chapter, who had set up a MOO link with the Hab for people attending a astronomy lecture and sky party to ask us questions.

Steve Dawson, Human Factors: I plan, in terms of volume of time, to be mostly involved in videography as well as work analysis measures during EVAs. When at the hab I'll be collecting data for two HF studies: 1) the social psych study in collaboration with colleagues from ANU (involves people filling in a brief questionnaire every 1-2 days); and 2) neurocognitive studies in which I'll coordinate people doing Jan's MEOW testing as well as the Cogstate testing each day on laptops (around 15 min per person for each test per day). As part of 1) I'll also be looking at comparing the 'commander' approach to leadership with a 'distributed leadership' approach planned for phase 4. I'm counting on people to participate in both studies (though the MEOW study is voluntary) in order to produce some useable data; also need some more volunteers for the MEOW study if possible.

Steve kept us all on task for the social psych study and Cogstate. We scheduled time every other day to complete this vital human factors research. In addition, Steve involved us in an additional study about personality types. I suppose that with all the interesting personalities at the Hab, Steve had more potential for research than any of us!

Jon Clarke, Chief Geologist: I don't really mind in what order I do things and, because I am not sure of the travel times or the detailed track distribution, the following suggestion is flexible.

• Sol 1 traverse along Skyline Rim
• Sol 2 visit (and climb?) Factory Butte
• Sol 3 visit (and climb?) Caineville Mesa
• Sol 4 Traverse along Fremont River, look at different alluvial deposits
• Sol 5 Visit the Aeolian deposits north of Hanksville (near the airport, I think)
• Sol 6 Visit (and climb?) some of the mesa's south of the Fremont River.

Jon did see most of the sites, and put them in their geological context. In addition, he completed the regolith terrain-mapping document, even adding explanatory photos. This document was used by the biologists in their richness studies. Jon also spent three days participating in Graham's study.

Nancy Wood, Lead Biologist

1. I would like to revisit Lith canyon, a previously visited site.
2. A possible off-sim objective would be specific tests near the Hab, such as soil corings.
3. If possible, a rover overnight would be good, to revisit rover ops and lab procedures.
4. EVAs to retrieve sampling devices. This could be combined with any other objective; some should involve people OTHER than me, to test training, teamwork, finding field equipment, etc.
5. Time for lab work.
6. Flexibility, to adapt to discovery and novel situations.

Nancy participated in all three comparative rover studies, which were carried out near Lithe Canyon and included setting out and retrieving sampling devices.

Shannon Rupert Robles, Commander: Basically, I would echo what Nancy said. I also have sites I would like to revisit including the three used in my study last year: Tank Wash, Coal Mine Wash and South Hab. We could do South Hab out of sim as it is a short walk from the Hab and would work with Nancy's objectives. There is also a site back towards the main highway that I would like to visit for rock microhabitats, which I discovered hold rainwater in the summer. Would like to send Graham and Matt (or any other interested people) out on a bio EVA using our written protocols to test if they are effective training tools. Hope to spend some time at the Observatory, too.

In the end, it was Guy, Nishi and Steve Jordan who helped the biologists in our BIONOID study, testing how understandable our protocols are for non-biologists. Matt and Graham had their hands full with the rover study. Nishi, Fathi and Steve Dawson completed an EVA to look for rock microhabitats. Unfortunately, I never did more with the observatory than look at it. Maybe next time!

Graham Mann, Field Engineer: Comparative Rover Study. If we have a failure on one of the two sorties, we might try for a second opportunity later, schedule permitting. Other than that I am up for anything. I would like to do an EVA (since I am only observing during the comparative rover studies and not in simulation).

Graham not only completed his study using the Everest and the ARES, but at the request of the Michigan Rover team, added a third data point by including the AONIA PEV in the study.

Steve Jordan, Public Relations: My mission will be to shoot video in and around the crew as directed, or at my discretion. I'm planning to bring a Sony DCR-VX2000 with a 9 hr battery and charging cable, .6x and 2x lenses; also polarizer, UV and fluorescent filters, a fluid head tripod, 5 DV tapes, and a USB connector. (If I'm in the mood, a shotgun mike and maybe a wireless mike for inside a willing victim's helmet. If I can get one, I may bring a light for shooting inside the hab.)

Steve continued his documentation of ExOne and completed interviews with each crewmember for a documentary short he is working on. In addition, he preformed many engineering duties this week, and also participated in the BIONOID experiment, in which crewmembers went on EVA and did basic biology to see if a non-biologist would be comfortable doing fieldwork with minimal training.

Nishi Rawat, Medical Officer: I'll probably be administering Steve's psych questionnaires during Phase 3.

Nishi not only assisted Steve in his research, she served as HSO for the phase and even began a study of her own. "Running on Mars" looked at the challenges of training for long distance running not only in the MarsSkin suits, but also in full sim, where it takes three people-- the runner, the escort and HabCom--to accomplish a single workout. She also participated in the BIONOID study.

Stan Piechocinski, Communications Engineer: My main role is that of Communications Engineer, so I'll be trying to make sure that the computer systems, dataloggers and radios are working properly. In my spare time, however (if any), if crew comments reveal any areas where the Datalogger menus can be made more user friendly, I will experiment with modified page and menu layouts.

Stan became the pilot on all three of the comparative rover studies and that kept him pretty busy most of the week.

Matt Bamsey, Executive Officer /Chief Engineer: Put me down as a 'support figure'. I will be there to do whatever odd tasks come up - besides helping with the regular maintenance of the hab, etc. I would also like to participate in one or two EVAs if that is in some way possible - so I can get out and see the surrounding area a little myself. I'll be taking the SUV to SLC to drop off those leaving after phase 3 and making the return trip the same day - I'm looking forward to that for some reason :). Besides that, I'm just happy to be part of the team and as I said will help everyone out as much as I possibly can (and always with a smile).

Matt went with Steve Dawson to Grand Junction, CO to see about repairs to an ATV on the first day. That was only the start of a week in which he proved himself extremely capable of being THE support figure for phase three. He assisted Graham in documenting the rover studies and did a myriad of other things that helped the week go as smoothly as it did.

Guy Murphy and Fathi Karouia were last minute additions to the phase three crew. Both remained after phase two and we were lucky to have them with us. Guy became the crew's sim advocate and first HabCom, and also participated in the BIONOID study and worked with the film crew. Fathi graciously demonstrated what we were trying to accomplish to the film crew (he was the star) and also continued the richness studies.

These are only some of the accomplishments of this fine crew during Phase Three. I apologize if I forgot any important work and did not mention it here.