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The best pictures and videos of 2025
As we look back on 2025 we celebrate a year marked by the World’s Biggest Analog, a Vertical Treadmill in full swing, and the expansion of our educational initiatives. From connecting 16 analog habitats worldwide to training the next generation […]
AMADEE-27 Announcement of Opportunity
Between 05-18Apr2027 (tbc), the Austrian Space Forum will conduct its next major international Marsanalog mission in the Monsaraz region in Portugal (tbc). The field mission will be carried out in a Martianterrestrial analog and directed by a dedicated Mission Support […]
Analog Astronauts Wanted!
Application deadline: December 7, 2025 The Austrian Space Forum is soliciting applications for the next class of Analog Astronauts (class of 2026). After a competitive selection process between December 2025 – May 2026, the analog astronauts will report for an […]
World Biggest Analog 2025 – Picture of the Day
Oct 13th – 26th 2025, 1 mission, multiple habitats, collaborative research. The largest coalition of space professionals and organization are simulating for two weeks, how we will live and work in Space as a community. Day 14: 26 October 2025The […]
The 2025 Polar Star Award goes to astrophysicist Rudolf Albrecht
On October 24, 2025, the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) awarded the 2025 Polar Star Award to astrophysicist Dr. Rudolf Albrecht. The Forum honored Albrecht’s outstanding achievements in astrophysics, space technology, and his decades of work promoting international cooperation in space […]
World’s largest Moon/Mars analog mission launches: “World’s Biggest Analog”
Vienna is the central hub! On October 13, 2025 the largest Moon/Mars analog mission to date launched with 17 institutions on five continents: the “World’s Biggest Analog.” From October 13 to 26, 2025, 16 Mars/Moon habitats, under the leadership of […]
What opportunities and experiences the Internship at the OeWF gave me
Hi, my name is Agáta, and I am a high school student in Austria. Last winter, whilst searching for a summer job, I came across the OeWF pupil internship. It immediately piqued my interest, and I was eager to send […]
Internship 2025: MICO-VIE Planning
My name is Titouan Beyly, I am a French engineering student at ESTACA where I am studying aeronautics. I am part of my school’s rocketry club. I learned of the OeWF internship possibilities from our school job offer website. From […]
Being an intern at the ÖWF: Building the MICO-VIENNA
My name is Margot Girard and I am an aerospace engineering student from France. I study at ESTACA, an engineering school specialized in means of transport and I found the OeWF through my school’s career center. I then went on […]