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Images shot on && Dec-20th, 2007.
Shot with a Nikon D40
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Waking up this morning was especially difficult this morning. It does not seem to be that difficult for my friendly roommates, but I begin to be physically tired due to our incredibly long engineering task list. During the breakfast, our Commander decided to add a red check mark in front of the "Clean area around MDRS" task. Usually, I am more than happy to go on EVA, but this time I knew it would be painful. So Jon, Ben, Chris and I suited up for one of our last EVA sessions and closed to the station behind us. One of the first things which shocked us was the mess around the station and more particularly around the engineering area and one of our main goals as a crew was to try to organise the area a little bit. Unfortunately, we did not have time before today.
So today we spent two hours cleaning and organising the area around the station and the engineering area. Again, I have been surprised how tiring is it to carry heavy things when wearing the suits. At noon, everybody was exhausted but at least, Catherine, in seeing the pictures, told us we did a great job. Of course, we did not clean everything, and it can only be considered as a beginning but I deeply think that every crew should try to find a couple hours to continue this charitable task.
After the lunch, Chris made a presentation about Orbital Mechanics. He received his PhD on this subject and remembered enough to totally lose our biologist! Catherine, what about the eccentricity of a parabolic trajectory? Do not worry, you will lose us tomorrow with your Halophiles presentation. After the presentation, we strived to add the more red check marks on the engineering tasks list as possible. Chris and I finished the bio-starter process in the Greenhab while Jon fixed the potable water line and Ben successfully tested the new back-up generator.
Tonight Ben gave his presentation about the Mars Society and MDRS. An for now, we just received a message from Mission Support saying that, since we are the first crew to use a new back-up generator, we get to name it. So the name of the new back-up generator will be... "Mei Mei". Don't ask, it did not understand either.
[As the generator was made in China and we have been learning chinese via 'Firefly' DVDs and the new generator is smaller than its diesel counter part I decided to call it 'Mei Mei' which translates into 'little sister' in Chinese. --Ben]
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