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14 Days Underground: What Asclepios VI Taught Me About Isolation (Part 2 – The science side)
written by Marla Lynn Welsch What Can We Measure About Humans? During Asclepios VI, numerous scientific experiments explored exactly these interactions. With Raptor, a lunar lander simulator, we had to safely land a virtual spacecraft on the Moon. Questionnaires and cognitive […]
The Instrument That Follows No Script: Inside Caillou’s Software
In this article our intern Nikola Ivanov writes about the software that turns a Raspberry Pi, a laser and a camera into an instrument an operator can run from the habitat, or, in the fiction of the mission, from another […]
14 Days Underground: What Asclepios VI Taught Me About Isolation (Part 1 – The human side)
written by Marla Lynn Welsch Nine analog astronauts. One underground bunker in Switzerland. Fourteen days in isolation. What can an analog Moon or Mars mission teach us about how humans function when they cannot simply walk away? When you picture […]
From CAD Models to Physical Prototype: Hardware Implementation and AIV of the Caillou Instrument
This article describes the ongoing work of our interns on the Caillou project – a synthetic Raman spectrometer for AMADEE-27. To learn more about idea and design process read this article: https://oewf.org/en/2026/06/synthetic-raman-spectrometer-for-amadee-27/. The second article describes the process how to […]
A Spacesuit fit for a Princess
By Ludovica Valentini and Olivia Drayson When you picture an astronaut, chances are you imagine them wearing a spacesuit. But have you ever wondered what lies behind this sophisticated equipment? Since the beginning of human spaceflight, spacesuits have been developed […]
New Analog Astronaut Trainees apply the skills they have acquired during outdoor training
From the 18th to the 19th of July 2026 the OEWF Analog Astronaut Trainees, with the support of the Ground Operations Support Team (GOST) and a student from BG/BRG Sillgasse who volunteered to take part, demonstrated their expertise during the […]
Junior Analog Astronaut Program
written by Claudia Gollner and Nathan Pili Before the analog astronaut B-selection, we were told that part of the process would involve presenting to students about a topic of our choosing. What we didn’t know was that these students were […]
The First Mission: Becoming a Team
written by Renana Bruckstein and Arfor Houwman, Analog Astronauts class of 2026 When you are on a mission – whether in space, in an extreme environment on Earth, or even in a high-performance setting in everyday life – you have […]
From Concept to Prototype: Bringing the Caillou Instrument to Life
After defining the mission requirements and exploring several design concepts in our previous article, the next challenge was to transform those ideas into a functional prototype. A scientific instrument is only valuable if it can be operated efficiently in the […]