Crew Physical Status: very good.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: Today's main activity was a five hour emergency rescue operation EVA to train the rescue of an astronaut out of a (small) canyon under sim conditions. For this, AustroMars brought extensive equipment from Austria's Mountain Rescue Association and MSL M. Spiss, a trained mountain rescuer and expert, conducted the test. Everything worked well and we proved, both from a medical, engineering and logistics point of view, that such rescue operations are feasible and, given the right equipment (in this case specially designed by Austria's Mountain rescue association, patented and worldwide in use), safe and effective.

The afternoon saw other engineering EVAs to Repeater Hill in order to work on the WLAN network as well as to test the Aerobot. Besides that, all scientific test were successfully performed as usual.

EVA: 3.

Plans for Tomorrow: See flight plan day 12 of MCC.

Report Transmission Schedule:

1. Commander's Check-in: 18:30
2. Commander's Report: 21:00
3. XO Report: 20:00
4. HSO Report: 20:00
5. Engineering Report: 20:00
6. MSL Report:
7. MSP Report:
8. EVA Report: 21:00
9. Photographs:21:00

Miscellaneous: As it was a calm sunny day, the hab roof did not disintegrate any more because of storm. Everything is in good status, except the nominal internet connection. For the moment, we run on WildBlue sat connection and it proves to be good, nevertheless the normal connection disabled by yesterdays storm will have to be reestablished. ATV3 is running again and in perfect shape.

Support Requested: Generator was down most of the day, at 1800 we were still running on battery, but apparently work is going on to fix the problem.

More to follow.

Alexander Soucek
Commander, MDRS Crew 48 "AustroMars," on behalf of CDR