Crew 189 Sol Summaries
ONMARCH 10, 2018
Sol Summary – March 10th
Crew 189/190 Sol Summary Report 10 Mars 2018
Sol 20/0
Summary Title: Welcoming our Belgian neighbours
Author: Louis Mangin / Maximilien Richald /Michael Saint Guillain
Crew Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Hab cleaning in the morning, debriefings, trip to Green Mars, meeting with university Rover team. Then arrival of crew 190 from Belgium and knowledge transfer.
Look Ahead Plan: Briefings for crew 190, installation, trip back to Grand Junction for crew 189.
Anomalies in work: –
Weather: Partly cloudy, very warm.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: –
Reports to be file: Operation report
Support Requested: –
POSTED ONMARCH 7, 2018 Sol Summary – March 7th Here the Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 07 March 2018
POSTED ONMARCH 6, 2018 Sol Summary – March 6th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 06 Mar 2018
Sol 16
Summary Title: TV stars
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Today was another special day: a journalist duo came from Washington to shoot a report for the news on a French national TV. They were very curious and friendly and should have taken great shots of Lith Canyon and the station. The reporter followed us wearing a spacesuit during the EVA. Let’s hope the result looks great!
The afternoon was quieter: human factors experiments, astronomy, experiments, video editing, demonstrations/interviews for the journalists…
Look Ahead Plan: Emergency procedures training vol. 2 in the morning, small EVA in the afternoon to deploy Solar Panels, GPS guidance system, shoot missing footage for the rotation video
Anomalies in work: –
Weather: Sunny.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: Lith Canyon + Battery change
Reports to be filed: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer EVA report EVA request Astronomy report
Support Requested: –
POSTED ONMARCH 5, 2018 Sol Summary – March 5th Here is the Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 05 March 2018
Sol 15
Summary Title: Beginning of last martian week
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: We began our last week on Mars. Today’s EVA was dedicated to air sensors experiments and to localization experiment. The EVA was not really successful (cf EVA report) but we still have one week left to work on this! In the Hab today, I was pleased to cook a salad (salad, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes!): it was delicious! I took care of the greenhab as Jérémy was outside and as the previous Crew 175 Greenhab officer, I spent some time enjoying the vegetables smells! Then, we spent time working on our experiments (human factors experiment, virtual reality filming…)
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow, we will welcome two French television journalists (TF1). They will spend the day with us from our physical training to our afternoon activities.
Anomalies in work: None
Weather: Sunny
Crew Physical Status: Fine
EVA: 11th
Reports to be filed: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer Astronomer EVA
Support Requested: None
Cheers,
Victoria Crew189 Commander
POSTED ONMARCH 4, 2018 Sol Summary – March 4th Sol 14
Summary Title: The last Sunday on Mars
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Today was our second day-off and our last Sunday on Mars. We took time for ourselves and worked on some experiments. This day-off was really appreciated by the whole crew.
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow will be the beginning of our last week on Mars. Everyone seems really motivated to work hard during these last days and to welcome the journalists on Tuesday!
Anomalies in work: None
Weather: Sunny and windy
Crew Physical Status: Fine
EVA: None
Reports to be file:
Commander
Journalist
Engineering
Greenhab Officer
Support Requested: None
POSTED ONMARCH 1, 2018 Sol Summary – March 1st Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 01 March 2018
Sol 11
Summary Title: The first EVA without veterans
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: This morning, the crew woke up lately (35 minutes late) , and we decided not to do our physical exercise as an EVA was planned at 9am. After our breakfast, Alex (EVA leader), Jérémy, Laurent and Benoit went outside to perform their first EVA without Louis or me in the team. I have to say I was quite worry to let my “little martians” go outside without Louis or me. The EVA went well even if we faced some radios issues (our Habcom Gabriel was hardly able to communicate with the EVA team …) The afternoon was dedicated to our human factors experiments (the competition is really funny to observe).
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow, we will all work on our outside experiments (MegaARES and LOAC), on the radios issues and will explore again Mars. On Saturday, we will welcome a French journalist and everyone seems happy to see a new face. We will all work on our experiments and have our routine (physical training in the morning, human factors experiments, bread competition…)
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck
Weather: Cloudy and windy
Crew Physical Status: Fine
EVA: 8th
Reports to be filed: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer EVA
Support Requested: None
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 28, 2018 Sol Summary – February 28th Hello again Capcom,
Here is today’s sol summary:
Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 28 Feb 2018
Sol 10
Summary Title: Inside Ops
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Today started with another general good performance during the sport session: everybody is in good shape and athletic in this crew! After breakfast, four of us spent the morning upgrading the GrenHab by adding the new shade, and cleaning/ reorganizing it. The day went on with work on our experiments: human factor experiments, location, EVA logger, solar panel cleaner.
Look Ahead Plan: Exploration of Lith Canyon, deployment of location and logger systems, human factors experiments, emergency procedures follow up.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: –
Reports to be file: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer
Support Requested: –
Louis Mangin Crew 189 Commander
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 27, 2018 Sol Summary – February 27th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 27 Feb 2018
Sol 9
Summary Title: The day of emergency procedures
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: This morning, after a small issue of alarm (1 hour late on our usual wake up), we had a nice physical training (I was really motivated and did a really nice session!). After our breakfast, Laurent (our HSO) gave us a briefing about the emergency procedures. The afternoon was dedicated to use all this theory during EVA. Louis, Benoit, Gabriel, Laurent and I went outside the Hab to simulate all these emergency procedures. After this interesting EVA, we spent one hour doing the human factors experiment of Gabriel. (I think I am already addicted to this game, and playing with Laurent and Alex is really fun).
Look Ahead Plan: We were already all busy the first days of our second week. Tomorrow, we will all work on our experiments and will not go to EVA. At the end of this week, we will welcome a French journalist and everyone seems happy to see a new face. We will all work on our experiments and have our routine (physical training in the morning, human factors experiments, bread competition…)
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck
Weather: Nice and really warm
Crew Physical Status: Fine, still a bit tired from the first week
EVA: 7th
Reports to be file:
Commander
Journalist
Engineering
Greenhab Officer
EVA
Support Requested: None
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 26, 2018
Sol Summary – February 26th
Hello again Capcom,
Here is today’s sol summary:
Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 26 Feb 2018
Sol 8
Summary Title: Getting the rhythm
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Today started by a quick EVA, to change LOAC’s battery, followed by an exploration of White Canyon. We spent this afternoon working on experiments and cleaning up the Hab as lower deck was becoming very dirty. The crew is now in good shape and the three of us recording our physical performance this morning scored new records in almost every discipline. Only some of us lack of sleep, but except from this, everybody is doing great! The only thing worrying us is reduced food’s portions, but we start to adapt to lighter meals.
Look Ahead Plan: Emergency procedures training in the morning, in situ testing during a quick EVA near the hab in the afternoon.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck
Weather: Mostly sunny.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: –
Reports to be file: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer EVA report HSO report
Support Requested: –
Louis Mangin Crew 189 Commander
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 25, 2018 Sol Summary – February 25th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 25 Feb 2018
Sol 7
Summary Title: Rest Day
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: We decided to declare two rest days this year because all the lack of sleep we accumulated last year. No fixed hour of wake up for today, but everybody was busy by 11:00 a.m. This day was supposed to be free and dedicated to long run tasks or personal time. In the afternoon, we split in different team, working in the greenhab to rearrange it, cooking, producing an encouragement video for school’s student selected for a TV show. It was also the time for a first individual debriefing about the sport sessions I organize.
Look Ahead Plan: Change of LOAC’s battery, exploration of White Canyon in EVA. Experiments repair, backpack change of battery, emergency procedures inside training.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck
Weather: Mostly sunny, cold.
Crew Physical Status: Fine.
EVA: –
Reports to be file: Commander Journalist Engineering Greenhab Officer
Support Requested: –
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 21, 2018 Sol Summary – February 21st Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 21 Feb 2018
Sol 3
Summary Title: First results
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Normal start: everybody is now accustomed to the physical training even if some legs are already heavy. The third EVA was supposed to deploy the LOAC but it didn’t go that well. The power system had an issue and wires melted once I pluged it in. We then brought the equipement back to the hab, and went on for the EVA, going East to do a bit of exploration near Cactus Road, and shoot photos for the school. This afternoon was dense: after lunch break, we answered to a French journalist interview, played the first session of Gabriel’s human factor experiment, installed a new shade on the GreenHab, worked on experiments, so that we didn’t have enough time to fix the backpack’s fans. Tomorrow EVA will then be done using the new version, before we take time to take care of these (this time, I really want to do it tomorrow).
Look Ahead Plan: Third deployment try of LOAC, data gathering of MegaARES, exploration of Candor Chasma, backpack’s fans inspection, end of shade replacement in greenhab.
Anomalies in work: Broken light in the bathroom (no replacement one found). Water leak in the Hab Lower deck, broken fans in spacesuits.
Weather: Cold and Cloudy
Crew Physical Status: Fine, already a bit tired, but everybody naped.
EVA: Second
Reports to be filed: Commander Journalist HSO Engineering Greenhab Officer EVA
Support Requested: New light for bathroom (see Engineering report)
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 20, 2018 Sol Summary – February 20th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 20 Feb 2018
Sol 2
Summary Title: First experiments deployment
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Our day began with our lovely physical training. It is already adopted by each crewmember. Since this morning, everyone has experienced the EVAs. We managed to deploy one experiment (the MegaARES) but a small problem enabled the LOAC deployment. We will fix it with Jérémy in order to try again tomorrow. Even if Gabriel had a very foggy helmet (fans problems), and everyone seems really happy and I have to say the photos Benoit took are really nice. During our EVA, the rest of the crew fixed the water boiler, cleaned, cooked and worked on experiments. After the lunch and a little break, Gabriel showed us his humans factors experiment, and everyone worked on their own experiments and reports.
Look Ahead Plan: After our first deployment, the second air sensor, (LOAC) will normally be deployed tomorrow.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck, broken fans in spacesuits
Weather: Nice
Crew Physical Status: Fine, already a bit tired from the first EVAs
Reports to be filed
Commander Journalist HSO Engineering Greenhab Officer EVA
Support Requested: No more boiler is needed. Would it be possible to have the RoverCal that is in the RAM delivered in the airlock please?
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 19, 2018 Sol Summary – February 19th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 19 Feb 2018
Sol 1
Summary Title: The day of Firsts
Author: Victoria Da-Poian
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: First physical training, first EVA. We started our day by the very famous physical training of the ISAE Supaero crews. After a nice morning working on our mission planning, fixing our experiments, and getting ready for our first EVA, we had a nice lunch with our first dried vegetables. After the lunch, the all crew worked on the EVA preparation to help the ones going outside and to learn the EVAs functioning. The EVA went fine and we will deploy our experiments tomorrow. Our first bread is baking.
Look Ahead Plan: Because of the wind planned for today, only one part of the crew went out for an EVA in the Hab surroundings to select a location to deploy our air sensors, MegaARES and LOAC. Tomorrow the other part of the crew will go to their first EVA to deploy our experiments.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck, broken fans in spacesuits, water boiler broken
Weather: Windy, cold in the station
Crew Physical Status: Fine, already a bit tired from the first physical training.
EVA: First one
Reports to be file:
Commander
Journalist
HSO
Engineering
Greenhab Officer
Astronomer Officer
EVA
Support Requested: new water boiler (please)
POSTED ONFEBRUARY 18, 2018 Sol Summary – February 18th Crew 189 Sol Summary Report 18 Feb 2018
Sol 0
Summary Title: Getting Ready
Author: Louis Mangin
Mission Status: All nominal
Sol Activity Summary: Last briefings, beginning of the simulation. We started by a round trip to Grand Junction to get back the rental car while the rest of the crew was settling in the hab, learned about the surroundings and station management with Dr Rupert. Then we learned about driving, spacesuits, and had a briefing about simulation with Dr Rupert. We then closed the airlock at 5:50 PM before sunset.
Look Ahead Plan: Because of the wind planned for tomorrow, we changed of plans, and will only go out for an EVA in the Hab surroundings to select a location to deploy our air sensors, MegaARES and LOAC.
Anomalies in work: Water leak in the Hab Lower deck, broken fans in spacesuits, water heater badly calibrated. Two greenhab thermometers probably broken. Voltmeter not working.
Weather: Very windy, hard to see and to travel without space suits.
Crew Physical Status: Fine, already a bit tired from travel.
EVA: None
Reports to be file: Commander Journalist HSO checklist Engineering Greenhab Officer
Support Requested: One or two thermometers.
