Crew Physical Status: Very good.

Brief Narrative of Today's Results: This morning Mission Control injected a medical anomaly - at 09:30, our Health and Saftey Officer "fell off a ladder" and got a deep, strongly bleeding wound on his left lower arm, which had to be treated immediately. As also the second medical expert of the team, our Mission Scientist for Life Sciences, was not available (GreenHab duty), two "greenhorns", CDR and XO, had to help, and XO performed a two-hour surgery stitching the wound in a sterile environment, demonstrating that such proceedings can be undertaken in the confined environment like the MDRS hab. The afternoon featured another long-range EVA (CDR, MSL, MSP), combining engineering tasks and geological sample collection, and leading to Skyline Rim on foot. From there, direct Vox contact could be established with the Hab without Repeater Hill's help.

EVA: 1.

Plans for Tomorrow: See flight plan day 14 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: 19:30
6. EVA Report: 21:00
7. Photographs: 21:00

Miscellaneous: nothing.

Support Requested: none.

More to follow.

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