FMARS Crew Status Report #1 – 7 July 2001 – 10:00 PM MDT
Status: Pre-Simulation Setup
Crew:
Commander: Dr. Pascal Lee
Medical Officer: Rainer Effenhauser M.D.
Geologist: Darlene Lim
Biologist: Dr. Charlie Cockell
Engineer: Frank Schubert
Engineer: Dr. Stephen Braham
Filmmaker: Sam Burbank
Reporting: Dr. Pascal Lee
Six of us entered the hab yesterday evening. Stephen finally landed at Haughton today.
The rest of the day was spent with:
hab cleanup effort (almost complete now: we’ll still need to dedicate
tomorrow morning to that)
won’t come on line until Monday at the earliest.
from the Nunavut Research Institute, the research licensing agency
authorizing our research on Devon Island. The representatives arrived on
the plane that flew Steve in.
of one of the Inuit youths hired for the summer following an ATV accident
this afternoon. Luckily nothing serious in the end but Rainer did leave for
Resolute Bay by Twin Otter to take the boy to the clinic and flew back to
Devon only late tonight, landing at camp at 3am on 010708.
In short, we are still catching up on the heavy delays imposed mainly
by the unseasonably late departure of snow this year, by some aspects of
the hab build out effort, by visits of officials, and by an accident.
Tonight, we are finally all in the hab: it’s 3:45 am and Rainer just
joined us. Spirits are high and we are eager to begin sim in earnest.
We are planning to be in sim from now on, with some occasional necessary
breaks, in particular to allow Steve to set up our overall comms
infrastructure over the next few days.
Plan for tomorrow, Sunday July 8:
buckets hand-carried by support staff as the water pump is not online
yet because of the risk of freezing.
the outside of the hab with an escape ladder and connect a wastewater
disposal system (drain pipe to a ground sump). Darlene will monitor the
EVA from inside the hab. Meanwhile, Pascal, Charlie and Rainer will prepare
for a late pm EVA.
foot. Darlene will retrieve a meteorology package set up on Haynes Ridge
in 2000 400 m southwest of the hab. Depending on how well things go,
Pascal and Charlie may then elect to go on a short ATV-rover traverse into
Haughton Crater to search for shocked basement rocks and possible
endolithic microbial communities living within them. Rainer and Darlene
will reenter the hab and remain on standby for EVA in case Pascal and
Charlie need help. All crews will remain within walk back distance from the hab at all times. Oxygen reserves assumed to carried on each backpack is 3 hours, a relatively low value consistent with a spacesuit that needs to be kept relatively light in weight.
The next FMARS crew status report will be issued following crew report period on Sunday evening, or sooner as events warrant.
