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Nov 2018
19.11.2018 - 24.11.2018: [Cancelled] Beyond Earth Orbit: Space exploration as an interdisciplinary tool for your classroom23.11.2018 - 29.11.2018: European Space Talks
Dec 2018
07.12.2018 - 09.12.2018: OeWF Analog Mission Basic Training (AMBT)Feb 2019
08.02.2019 - 10.02.2019: OeWF Analog Mission Advanced Training (AMAT)16.02.2019 - 17.02.2019: Austrian Space Ball 2019
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Recent OeWF blog entries
Interview with analog astronaut Kartik Kumar
OeWF analog astronaut Kartik Kumar was interviewed by Meredith Harbord and Sara Khan for their soon-to-be-published book entitled Design Thinking for schools: Ethical Dilemmas.
#IAC2018 Highlights
Today ends the 69th International Aeronautical Congress with a record number of 6,544 attendees. On the public day, additional 13,000 citizens visited the exhibition and the special sessions. In particular, the in-flight call to ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on the […]
#IAC2018 Day03: space is big, space is public
The third day of the International Aeronautical Congress in Bremen began with a historic moment. The DLR Mascot lander successfully touched soil on the asteroid Ryugu at 03:58 a.m CEST and 1 hour later the signal of the successful landing […]
#IAC2018 kicks off in Spacecity Bremen
The 69th edition of the International Astronautical Congress kicked-off today in Bremen with a very beautiful opening ceremony at the ÖVB Arena in Bremen. The Kammerphilharmonie Bremen did an amazing job playing Beethoven’s 5th and incorporating sounds & visuals from […]
Internship 2018: Surviving Mars
Regina Wieser, a physics student at the University of Innsbruck, has been an intern at our Spacesuit Lab this summer. In this blog, she describes her experiences during the internship. This September I was fortunate enough to get a look […]
AMADEE-18: An update on sample analysis
Despite AMADEE-18 having taken place more than half a year ago already, there are still a lot of ongoing post-mission activities, in particular scientific analysis. In this blog, the team from the Planetary Exploration Instrumentation Lab (PIL) at York University […]This article is available in: German