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Some form of windshield wipers? Have a long motorized brush sweep across the panel's surface twice a day or something like that. A mechanic can come out every other week or so for a more thorough cleaning.

Hmm, can we research a way to boost communications between labs and colonies? That will probably come in handy before long.

Narp. It was the firefly field or the gater swamp, they made their choice.
NASA has really suffered from funding cuts.

Budget cuts...

I am ashamed 
On the bright side, I have successfully powered a lightbulb using sheer mind power.

Isn't there supposed to be a training map? I'm pretty sure I saw one on Youtube; your character was invincible while fighting a couple of bunnies.

Granted! The rifle is broken (requiring very specific, extremely rare parts) and the ammunition is moldy, making it unsafe to fire.

I wish I could make toys come to life.

- Politely decline the Soviet offer. They are clearly trying to scout locations for their own offworld colonies. Space station technology is well-understood already; the ISS can easily hold 6 people, and our tech is much more advanced. If they want any chance for us to agree, they need to sweeten the pot.
- Have the colony dig out a storage depot for their products. If needed, we can bring over a storage dome to install. We should also take a little bit of the minerals back with us; not for industrial applications, but as shiny knick-knacks for rich types to buy and show off ("Check it out! Real Martian iron!" "Oh yeah? I have a genuine piece of Martian quartz!").
- Make sure our new Mars lab is set up to study the Relic more.
- What's the deal with portable railguns? Are they crossed out because they are next in line, or are they done?
- After they're done looking at the Relic, have the Mars lab work on improving communications capacity between here and Earth.

Posting to watch this.

And thus begins the corporations taking over all the space.

Y'know, this doesn't bother me so much. It gives common folk like you and I a better chance of going up, even if it's only a "day trip".