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OeWF Aouda.X presentation at ESA EAC
Last week a delegation of members of the Austrian Space Forum travelled to Cologne for an Aouda.X spacesuit-simulator presentation at ESA’s European Astronauts Centre (EAC). We arrived on Tuesday evening following a dinner with “Doctor Moon” Prof. Dr. Walter Kühnegger […]
OeWF handing over Earth Master Sample to Swarovski
It was the October 2013, during the busy time of World Space Week, when the OeWF announced a great project together with the famous jeweler, the Swarovski Crystals Company. Together Swarovski and the OeWF started a call to the public […]
The OeWF Spacesuit lab on CNNs “Make.Create.Innovate.”
The Spacesuit Laboratory of the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) was recently visited by reporters of the CNN show “Quest means Business: Make.Create.Innovate”. If you missed yesterdays report on the OeWF Spacesuit lab and Aouda.X on CNN you can now watch […]
ÖWF fliegt Sojuz-ISS Dockingmanöver in Stuttgart !
400 Erstsemestrige Studenten die sich alljährlich für Raumfahrttechnik inskribieren, 167 Mitarbeiter und ein Jahresbudget von 10 Millionen Euro – das ist das Institut für Raumfahrtsysteme der Universität (IRS) Stuttgart im Raumfahrtzentrum Baden-Würtemberg: Grund genug für eine Delegation des ÖWF diese […]
BBC FOCUS magazine featuring our Mars Analog Research
Aouda.X and MARS2013 featured on 4 pages in Februar 2014 edition.
The best pictures of the OeWF year 2013
On the last day of 2013 the Austrian Space Forum takes a look back to review the past working year. 2013 was an exciting, intense year with two major missions (MARS2013 simulation in the Nothern Sahara in Morocco and the […]
Name an asteroid
The Space Generation Advisory Council together with Near Earth Object Project Group and the Minor Planet Center started a great contest. Take your chance to name an asteroid. The contest is open to anyone. Submit your entry by November 30th […]
World Space Walk 2013 – A Simultaneous Success!
One of the key elements of equipment for a future human expedition to Mars will be a spacesuit that allows astronauts to roam the Martian surface. As part of WSW 2013 activities coordinated the OeWF’s from Mission Control Centre in […]
WSW 2013 Mission to Mars Acting Commander’s Report Final Day (8 Oct)
8 Oct 2013 Acting MDRS CDR Report – Haritina Mogosanu Another very early start for the crew at MDRS in preparation for the Planet-wide World Space Week Walk. The main event of the day, the World Space Week walk was […]