Goodbye Hab

Late last night Crew 64 arrived: an Australian, two Americans, a Canadian, a Jamaican, and a Norwegian (all a good bit older than my crew).  I felt uncontrollably defensive.  After seeing only the same five people all day, every day, for two weeks, having anyone else there felt very wrong.  The fact that they would [...]

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Over My Head

Nobody likes to feel useless or inexpert. I have a long way to go before I am neither … an insight I have most certainly gained from my experience at MDRS. Some of my crew mates have proven to be prodigious engineers and multidisciplinary whizzes. I’ve always advocated having a wide range [...]

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Hab Habits

Today the whole crew donned the suits for a six-person EVA. It was mostly just a desert frolic-turned-photo shoot. I’m hoping before the end of my stay here the group will have a chance to head out to the fossil fields about a kilometer to the east.
With the spacesuit on, it’s easy to [...]

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Oxygen Requires The Don to Live

New Year’s Eve, I thought about counting down to midnight like this:
10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… BLASTOFF!
But then I decided that’d be a little too corny. Even for me.
Here is a blog post full of non sequitur:
We got up this morning to watch the first sunrise of the year [...]

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More Photos from Mars

Happy new year!
These are, again, poor quality photos. Click to enlarge the image.
early morning hab

sunrise view of the mountains

huge landscape

mesas in the distance

a framed view of Factory Butte

the poop suit

image of the wanning moon (which Derek took with a reg’lar old camera through the eyepiece of the telescope)

headed [...]

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