Daily Reports
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Each day the crew is expected to send in a number of reports and upload a number of daily images. This is to give the crew a chance to inform the general public and their family and friends of their exploits, but also to give focus for their crew projects and the Hab projects in general.
Each evening between 8-9 PM a group of volunteers in Mission Support await your daily reports. There are templates (webforms) to send in your reports. Make sure you have the Commander’s Check In and the Engineering Report in before 8 PM. This tells the CapCom that all is okay with you, or where you need assistance. We expect the following reports also: Commander’s report, EVA report (per EVA), Science report (per science, so biology, geology is separate from each other), Journalist report. And any other Science report that is appropriate, like an Astronomy report when your crew does astronomy research. The Engineering report is a webform, the rest of the reports are just ‘windows’ on the web, that take a text message.
Don’t let the volunteers wait in vain for your reports. On the one hand they can’t help you if they are not informed of any snags you ran into during the day, on the other hand they are volunteers that give this hour or more to process your reports and be your contact with Earth to you freely. Being late is therefore not really nice.
The crew is expected to have the Commander's Check In ready and send in right at the start of the comm window.
Also the Engineering Report needs to be send in at that time, as that gives the engineering team the maximum time to trouble shoot and help with any engineering problems and answer questions about systems' use.
The reports are handed in using a webbased form that requires a password.
Contact mission support for the passwords.
Most of the reports are just a window with a box, in which you can paste the text. Reports of former crews give you a clue of what we expect for each of the reports:
The Science reports could cover various sciences: Biology, Geology, Astronomy, Paleontology.
Each science experiment warrants its own report. Which means that a crew could hand in several science reports each day.
Likewise each EVA warrants its own EVA Report.
The Health and Safety Report is a special kind of report in that it should never contain the names of any of the crew members discussed here. Only the Flight Surgeon, Dr. Tam Czarnik, needs to know that as he will be the doctor to give the first care in case of minor ailments. Obviously real emergencies are dealt with in a more direct manner, but even then Dr. Czarnik will assist in getting emergency medical help to the injured crewmember as fast as possible.
Mission Support will acknowledge the receipt of each report with an 'ACK', that is a message that states ACK in the subjectline of the email.
In that same subjectline the CapCom or engineer will note 'With Comments' or 'NO Comments'. Obviously reports that are acked with a With Comments subjectline will need more communication from the crew.
During the Comm Window the CapCom confers with colleagues of Mission Support in a virtual Mission Support Room. This room can be viewed from an, also virtual, observation room for anyone not (yet) part of Mission Support.
Access to that room can be found [here]
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