Report title: Sol Summary Report
Crew #: 330
Position: Crew Commander
Report prepared by: Gaspard THIEULIN
Date: 11/03/2026
Sol: 24
Summary Title: Getting ready for Earth
Mission Status: Going great, 2 days left
Sol Activity Summary: Once again today we had a lot of work to do. In the morning we had a specially intense physical activity session. It could be very hard to return to Earth’s gravity after a few years between weightlessness and Mars’s lighter gravity, so astronauts should work harder on the way back to rebuild muscle mass.
The rest of the morning saw the crew working hard on their remaining tasks, crucially we had to finish building the SupaeroMoon rover for this afternoon’s EVA. Because we had to 3D print every piece of the rover, the timing to test it in the desert is very close.
For lunch, we prepared quite an inventive meal with the few remaining supplies for our mission. Even with reduced ingredients we manage to eat plenty and tasty food, which feels rewarding each time!
In the afternoon, the EVA team used the RAM as a temporary depressurized module, to test and troubleshoot the SupaeroMoon rover. The rover didn’t meet its performance objective, but the EVA was a success from our point of view, as we could conduct the tests without any issue on our end.
We kept gathering data for the Orbital Architecture and NeuroErgo experiment and will keep doing so until the end of the mission. We have to anticipate the end of the mission, and put back the station in order for the next crew so we have to find the perfect trade-off between maximizing science and sleeping the next few nights.
Finally, the crew journalist wants to shoot as many scenes as possible before leaving the station, as he doesn’t want to miss any single part of the mission for his upcoming documentary.
We kept making progress on the assessment of our entire mission, taking surveys and writing reports on everything we did during this last month.
Look Ahead Plan: Tomorrow will be our last full sol in the MDRS. We will dedicate every bit of our energy to the final tasks ahead of us. We will conduct our last EVA to bring back the atmospheric experiments to be packed up on our departure.
Anomalies in work: N/A
Weather: Sunny
Crew Physical Status: Physically fit and well
EVA:
EVA 21 conducted with success
EVA 22 to be planned for packing the atmospheric experiments
Reports to be filed:
Journalist report
Greenhab report
Operations report
Astronomy report
Support Requested: None