501-CommanderReport

Commander Report

05/01/2014

Pete Morgan-Dimmick

Things continue to go very well. The crew completed a successful EVA today to scout locations for

testing EVA rescue techniques. The revisited areas from last year, but the second location was deemed

too remote and dangerous (due to the likelihood of finding Mars rattlesnakes). I will recommend to the

commander that we not visit this location for testing the rescue techniques.

Last night we were also able to get the telescope up and running. Although we are still fine tuning it

we were able to get a nice picture of the Sombrero Galaxy.

Moral remains high as temperatures increase, so will likely start doing our EVAs in the morning.

We're coming up on the mid point of our rotation here, and tomorrow Kavya leaves us. She's been walking

me though the engineering reports and tasks, which I'll be taking over after she departs. We'll

temporarily be down to 5 people until Alex, our commander arrives.

-PMD

Pete Morgan-Dimmick

MDRS Crew 141

XO / Acting Commander