MDRS Day 8 - Gates of Tomorrow

Today we got snowed in. All of our EVAs were cancelled, so we stayed inside to write up the Spaceward Bound curriculum and do reports. I started building a wall, fixed the hood popper on the Voyager, wrote 20 pages of the ATV training manual with lots of cool pictures I took, and plugged in the car jumper, which takes a LOT longer to charge than I anticipated. Hopefully by tomorrow it will be done. That’s about all I’ve done so far today, and I’m sure everyone else’s day was much less interesting than mine, except for Genoveva, because she has pictures of her favorite Korean actor on her computer and was showing them to LaTasha.

There are only three full days left here for us. However, those three days will be hectic. I have to finish the ATV curriculum, the engineering manual, and the spacesuit donning instruction manual. I’m also not giving up any EVA time, since that’s what I came here to do primarily. Tomorrow J.R. and I are heading off to get some slides and come up with some reports about sites that we have visited, since no one in the 52 crews before us have documented what is at each site aside from the waypoint location, which serves no purpose other than to clog our GPSs.

Tomorrow is another day. I’ll definitely be having more fun then if I can work everything out right.

"Suffering evil when you pay the price of fame
There isn't a god to save you if you don't save yourself
You can't blame a madman if you go insane
Give me the strength so I carry on
Trapped in the web - but I cut the threads
Show you the gates of tomorrow"