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 Mars simulations and got a chance to witness a full donning with our analog astronaut Joao Lousada from Portugal. In a small exercise they even got the chance to staff the operations console, monitor the biomedical telemetry of the suit during a training exercise and talk the analog astronaut through procedures.

Analog astronaut Joao Lousada with the Aouda spacesuit simulator. (c) OeWF

OeWF Administrative Director Dr. Gernot Groemer explains the Aouda spacesuit simulator to the students. (c) OeWF

Analog astronaut Joao Lousada navigates the Marvin rover. (c) OeWF

Group picture with all students in front of the Columbus module. (c) OeWF