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Artificial screwdrivers and decision making
Facebook can be a waste of time–full of cat pictures and click-bait articles–but I would not sit here in the suit lab today, if I had not scrolled down my endless feed one night last December when I discovered a […]
To Mars and back again
Since I, Marko Lovric, a 23-year old physics student from Innsbruck, started at the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), I could have travelled to Mars and back again, that’s just one thing of all the stuff that I learned. Some of […]
From coding to video walls
My name is Thiemo, I grew up in Innsbruck and I’ve been part of the Austrian Space Forum for about one year now. I first found out about the OeWF and its missions in 2013 when my High School class […]
My first media and communications interaction with the real world
My name is Filippo, I am Greek/Italian but was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. When I learned about the OeWF online, I was stoked that my home country was actively engaged in the space effort. I have always wanted […]Austrian Space Forum selects 19 international experiments for Oman Mars simulation
Austrian Space Forum selects 19 international experiments for Oman Mars simulation Among selected institutions are teams from Oman, North America and Europe The OeWF has selected 19 experiments from international and domestic submissions to be part of the Mars analog […]
Where to look for life on Mars?
Sophie Gruber, physics student at the University of Innsbruck and OeWF member is about to finish her Bachelor thesis. The Austrian Space Forum supported her research topic. In this blog post, she explains her thesis: Where to look for life […]
Revamping Aouda.X to a rear entry spacesuit design
Anjana Jegatheesan, a master student in Space Science and Technology of the Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, has been staying with us for a while now to work on improving our Aouda spacesuit simulator. Her newest blog will give […]
Gesture control system, or: How to speed up note taking
Max Lell is currently staying with the Austrian Space Forum, doing his master thesis on the Aouda space suit simulator. In this week’s blog, he explains his research. How did you get in there and how is it to work […]
Remote villages on Earth can teach us about living on Mars
When looking to settle down beyond Earth, on Mars or the Moon for example, we often focus almost exclusively on the technological aspects. We are researching how to build and land spaceships that can take humans safely to their new […]