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The Austrian Space Forum announced today the student contest “Born to Explore”. On the occasion of the 29th ASE Planetary Congress which will take place in Vienna from 03-07 Oct. 2016 students between 6 – 25 years are invited to […]
After finding out about the Space Event of the TU Vienna Space Team through the Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF) in spring 2016, it didn’t take me long to decide: I had to go! Shortly after, I joined the ÖWF and […]
Summer did not arrive in Innsbruck yet, but our OeWF Spacesuit laboratory transformed into summer busyness already. Since several years summer time is also internship time at the Austrian Space Forum and we are happy to welcome our first intern […]
Austrian Space Forum publishes policy statement on analog research “Vienna Statement on Analog Planetary Research” aims to strengthen research field Scientists at the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and numerous international partners have released a policy statement on analog research on […]
In the fourth part of our interview, we talk to Dr. Norbert Frischauf, the commander of the AustroMars mission. In April 2006, he was at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah together with other crew members who have […]
In part 3 of our AustroMars interview series, we speak to the first officer, Alexander Soucek, who spent the mission in April 2006 in Utah, as well as to Olivia Haider, who was working on homepage & communications in Salzburg […]
In February, I had the privilege of speaking to a class of young, bright-eyed and enthusiastic children at Orange Glen Elementary in California. I was invited into Ms. Alvarado’s 1st grade classroom to share my Mars story. From the first moment, […]
In the second part of our anniversary interviews, we stay on “Earth” and talk to Sebastian Sams and Willibald Stumptner about their memories of the AustroMars mission. Both experienced these weeks in April 2006 at the mission control center (MCC) […]
Innsbruck, 7-10 April 2016 None of the analog astronauts had been back to the OeWF spacesuit laboratory since the AMADEE-15 mission, last August. So this refresher training was not only a very needed update and recap on our knowledge and […]
In April of 2006, a human research mission to the red planet was simulated at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah. For two weeks, a crew of six Austrians conducted experiments in an analogue Mars mission, similar to […]
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