Crew 216 Journalist Report 03-DEC-19
Sol 9
Author: Evgenia Alexandrova
Long martian days are about discussions and getting to know each other. We are basically six strangers who happened to love space and applied for MDRS over a year ago. We keep steadily learn from each other and our discussions become more and more profound and personal. But in the end, it all comes down to a human factor no matter on which planet you are. People is all we have and hopefully we won’t end up talking to furniture here, and as one of the crewmembers stated today:
“When you start giving anthropomorphic characteristics to a piece of equipment, life gets harder”
And another crewmember wrote this today:
Martian landscape burning bright
In sol system, 4th small light
What untold view of human eye
Could scry thy red ‘neath open sky
In chasms gasping towards the skies
Burnt out cones of ancient fires
Within our heart such dreams to beat
Of Martian dust on human feet