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Hello World!The Campus Martius crew will come together in Grand Junction, CO in five days! In six days we will start our two week adventure at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station.I haven't...
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I got a new camera last night! It's an Olympus and it's much better than my 7 year old point and shoot. E is more experienced and will hopefully be able to show me the ropes. We'll take awesome photos...
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Crew 120 and mission support had a meeting last night to go over procedures and straighten out specifics. We reviewed the Friday/Saturday schedule, getting to the hab, crew positions, emergency...
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Day One
It’s our first night on Mars! We dressed for the occasion in our matching polo shirts (thanks to Derek). Also thanks to Derek we’ll be wearing some great sneakers from Sketchers. Here's a photo of us...
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Day Two
Our first full day has felt extremely long. We did so much!Woke up around seven, ate breakfast, drank coffee, and replaced batteries in a carbon monoxide detector that was complaining.Walked to hab...
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10:50amFirst EVA 001 is on their way back. Erick and I held down the fort. While the others were gone we tidied up for the film crew arriving today, made bread (still cooking in the bread maker),...
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Day Three, Part Two (Oh right...)
9:45 pmWhen writing my earlier post I totally forgot that the film crew arrived today! Three european blokes are going to use our crew in their film. Today we met, checked out the hab, and observed our...
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Day Four
Day Four included a large breakfast, a midday EVA, wind, film crew, yoga, rain, and snow!Here are some pictures from EVA 003:April is backpack 6, Derek is 5, and Erick is 2. I did not color enhance...
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Yesterday (day five) was a snow day. We were stuck inside until the rover got stuck outside and we had to have a unscheduled EVA to retrieve it!It was a day filled with lots of writing, tea drinking,...
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Another snow day - it didn't get warm enough to melt all the ice and snow.April and Diane made delicious potato pancakes this morning - mashed potato gems with ham flavored TVP cooked on a griddle with...
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Day Seven and Eight
Today I'll discuss ABCs - Astrophotography, Birthday, and Cabin Fever.Yesterday was my 23rd birthday! Everyone was really sweet with birthday wishes and dinner. Derek cooked a great meal as usual, and...
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Day Eight
I awoke around 9 this morning to raucous laughter in the hab. Clearly, I forgot to set my alarm! I pulled on a second layer of clothes to go into the main room and soon heard discussions of an EVA....
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Today my blog was featured on sfsignal.com!We are also going to do a reddit "Ask Me Anything" this afternoon (3 pm Mountain Time, 5pm EST). I'll update this post with the link once we get started.If...
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Sorry I haven't posted for a couple days. We've had problems staying under our internet allowance, and communication from mission support comes before blogging. Now it seems to be under control but...
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