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EVA 001 Report
17 Dec 2012
Written by Diane Turnshek

Our first Crew 120 EVA, my first EVA ever, began at 9:00 am Monday, December 17, 2012. I arose hours earlier, made the mistake of taking vitamins on an empty stomach and felt nauseous for the hour leading up to the EVA. Shades of Mary Roach’s book Packing for Mars haunted me. She posed the ( Read more... )

Guest blogger for the day--


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http://swishermars.blogspot.com/

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2012/fall/mars-adventure.shtml

Sweet article. Happy, happy. Still furiously packing. Don't know how everything is going to fit.

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I actually shopped on Black Friday. Gah! I've gotten away from shopping in recent years. Not only the whole "no money" thing, but the boys are older now and Anthony is not sentimental about birthdays and Christmas (or anniversaries or anything--which I find refreshing). But I needed some things for our upcoming trip to fake Mars. The list? Rain ( Read more... )

Nora and I heard back from the Mars Society. We've been invited to join Crew 120 for the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) north of Hankville, Utah for the two weeks around Christmas. Nora is my TA this semester for Intro to Astronomy at CMU. We'll follow in the footsteps of science fiction authors David D. Levine (2010, The Days are Just Packed ( Read more... )

I will be giving the monthly talk at the PARSEC meeting this Saturday afternoon around 2:30 pm. The Pittsburgh SF club meeting is free and open to the public. Topic? Alpha, of course. Please come. Squirrel Hill Branch of the Carnegie Library, corner of Forbes and Murray Ave. I'm open to grabbing a bite before or after--let me know!