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What a beautiful feeling! Sitting here tonight watching my crew mates

sharing and enjoying each others company... these unique moments to cherish

and set to memory as we enter the second week of this extraordinary

experience as MarsCrew134 at MDRS.

Life here at MDRS is challenging in many ways: physically, emotionally and

mentally and the key to finding balance and harmony amongst new crew mates

and living in such cramp quarters is a constant daily challenge. But no

matter how difficult..we all manage to come together by the end of the day

and become the "band of brothers" ..become a unit ..a "space faring" family.

Outside the wind is gusty and howling intensely around us as we listen to

the loud moans and creaks coming from the hab. Inside, there is a "blanket'

sense of calmness and peace after our nightly meditation session led by

Susan the crew medical officer. We were joined by the CNN reporter who

arrived this morning and followed various crew members throughout the day

filming snippets of " life on Mars". Our visitor from Earth enjoyed his

time with the analogue astronauts and left curious yet fascinated with this

bunch of eclectic, zany, "out-of-the-box" pioneering "extra-terrestrials".

It was another hectic and active day for us as we continued with our

individual research studies, conducted several EVAs.

Kai, the crew filmmaker continued his interviews of the crew team for

Space.com exclusive and footage for our own documentary of MarsCrew134.

here's to another day on Mars.