"I am looking at a radar image of an internal underground space of 10 miles. Its not a bad underground living space, If you can call it a livable space. Its the year 2028. My crew and I have been searching for a Lava Tube to call home. Why? Well, this being Mars the solar radiation makes it dangerous to live on the surface. Before we left, an autonomous robot system named DIG got to work looking for a potential site were we could set up an underground town. It was looking for just this. A Lava Tube it could dig into and expand. What we didn't expect was the Humidity that a crew of a 100 could develop inside here. We have been checking out what DIG... Well, what DIG, Dug into. Its a huge cavern. Must have been here for millions of years. It holds a nice size atmosphere but if you've ever been in a subway on Earth you know how hot it can get. I have talked this over with our chief engineer and he believes that once we get our buildings up and are recycling the air we should be able to bring down the humidity. One sec.. (Wipes the sweat from his face.) Ok. Jeeze! I am sweating. On a planet with dangerous subfreezing temperatures, I am sweating. Well, as our first mission goal is to set up the main life support buildings. We should be busy for the next few days. I am sure the heat will be a good motivator to get our buildings built.
We got an official call from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk praising us on our ability to get here and start setting up a livable base. I am just glad we didn't crash and burn, living underground is like anything else something I can deal with. The CEO wants the crew to make regular mission logs so as to get everything we are doing on record for historical and future other livable bases. I'll wrap my mind around that once I stop sweating!"
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