Today started off pretty well- I drove in from Sunderland, like I do on Mondays. It only took 2 hours and 20 minutes. I should have left a little earlier, but it happens to the best of us on Mondays.
Fjodor and I started working on our Mask templates, as we are going in the cleanroom tomorrow. I have my camera charged and ready to go, because I know tomorrow is going to be a fantastic day for photo opportunities! Here is a screenshot of my mask template!
After finishing the mask template, we went to work on the labs. We are pretty well edited, at least every single one has been touched by both of us- twice. Around noon, Nate stopped by and gave us our data logger for the high-altitude balloon launch, which had arrived from our first order.
At 12:45pm, we had a BUSAT brown bag lunch, where we watched about the newest Mars mission, and watched the press conference. It was really cool to watch an interesting event with a lot of people interested in it. That sounds like a vague statement, but I promise it’s not.
If you’d like to learn more about the Mars Rover, Curiosity, check it out on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s website: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/. There are all kinds of educational activities there.
We spent the rest of the day editing laboratories and coming up with an updated timeline of when we hope to accomplish each step. I decided that I’m going to try to spend the end of each workday blogging, so that I don’t have to spend time outside of here doing so!