Austrian Space Forum (OeWF)

Studying spacesuits at the European Astronaut Centre

On Monday, a team of the Austrian Space Forum demonstrated the Aouda.X spacesuit simulator to students at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne Germany. As part of their post-graduate education “Diploma in Aviation Medicine”, they learnend about the international OeWF […]

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 […]