We have finally installed a vacuum chamber that can drop the pressure to 2,500 mTorr (we can go to 500 mTorr) if we need it. That pressure is pretty close to what Discovery will experience in space. I ran the first test with the Engineering model for over six hours....

My friend Joel Jackel came down from new York with his Mark Watney costume. It took him a year to make it. We found a good location to take some shots and then with a little bit of editing, made it look like Mars. It was a fun photo shoot. Going to send this image on...

In order to test the Discovery PocketQube, we needed to build a launch pod. This device holds the Discovery and other PocketQubes in place for launch. Once the pod is in orbit, the door is commanded to open and the PocketQubes are released. These pods are for testing...