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Pre-Launch 12 Days 13 Hours
by Tom (admin) 
. . . . . this is Artemis Control. We are now at the T-minus 12 daysand 13 hours until the Big Blue lander undocks from the SeleneLaunching Complex to commence the 5 hours orbit transfer down to a land mark locally known as The Whispering Sands where Powered Descent Initiation will occurr. At this time the Crew's 2IC or XO Laurel Ladd, is finalising the dietary requirements of the Artemis One Crew.
This is very important for a Moon bound crew as everything must be hauled "up" from Earth with us. There is NO opportunity to go to the local green grocer or butcher when you are 240,000 miles from home and the same applies to crews who use the Mars Society's research stations. Everything must go in at the beginning. If you run out of something, well, lets just say the menu's will get very inventive. This was my experience when I last visited as Commander of MDRS Crew 35 last year. We didn't starve and proper preplanning saw us run of of food on the last day as planned. At this time all systems on theArtemis Habitat are in nominal and telemetry shows no major systemproblems at this time. Further updates as events warrent. This isArtemis Control. . . . . . ..
02/13/06 09:23:44 pm,