Report title: Journalist Report
Crew #: 326
Position: Crew Journalist
Report prepared by: Daria Bardus
Date: 01-01-2026
Sol: 4
Journalist Report Title: Peanut Butter and The Salsa Saga
After a late night celebrating the new year we all took the morning to sleep and rest before starting the day. After a peaceful morning, we finished getting ourselves ready before preparing for the EVA of the day. On this EVA Idris, Katharina, and Armand went to conduct their respective research projects on Hab Ridge. Idris placed more sensors, Kathrina attempted to collect data but had issues, and Armand continued to record problems and how they were resolved while out on EVA. During the EVA the three of them took a break to rest and eat before coming back to the hab. During this time Ben, Keegan, Vindhya, and I were back at the hab doing work and playing games while monitoring them on EVA. However, when they were passing out these snacks all we could hear on the comms from Katharina was “Not the peanut butter. Not the peanut butter! ANYTHING BUT THE PEANUT BUTTER!” leading us to all be confused until we got an explanation later when they came back. What we found out was that Katharina was accidentally on channel one and Idris was trying to hand her a peanut butter bar and she doesn’t like peanut butter at all.
While back at the hab, we worked on our research projects and got done our daily responsibilities before playing some games. Ben was able to do a stress test on his bricks and collect data. Vindhya and I were able to finish the rover and are now going to begin collecting data on the sample collection capabilities tomorrow. Lastly, Keegan was able to finish scheduling the rest of the EVAs for this rotation. After we all finished our work, we sat down and played a few rounds of Clue before beginning dinner.
For dinner we decided to make taco bowls where we prepared something that was supposed to be tortilla chips to dip in some salsa, beans, rice, and we harvested lettuce. However, when opening a new jar of salsa, I spilled salsa all over the kitchen leading to getting out baby wipes and thoroughly cleaning the kitchen area. This event was deemed The Salsa Saga. After cleaning up we all sat down to finish our reports, plan out tomorrow, and play some more games before going to bed.