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#ASE29 goes West, South, East and North
Yesterday was the traditional ASE Community Day. This means the astronauts and cosmonauts of the Association of Space Explorers visited schools, university, companies, cities and much more. As so many Social Media Reporters were out there to cover the day, […]
“6 years of training for 6 hours in space”
a recap of day two – daily insights into an astronauts life, perspectives on Asian spaceflight and loads of “born to explore” The day starts with Sergei Krikalov giving an introduction into the history and future of international space programs. […]
“Austria is a small country, but big in space"
A recap of the first day of ASE29: visions on exploration, education and research. „Born to explore“ – this is the motto of the 29th ASE Planetary Congress. Born to explore – a quote which could be viewed as a […]
25 years of AustroMir
On this day 25 years ago, on October 2nd 1991, Franz Viehböck became the first Austrian to launch into space. The 7-day AustroMir mission took the only red-white-red astronaut to the Russian space station MIR. And with him, 15 scientific […]
Born to Explore Contest – a short summary of the winning entries
The first human to land on Mars has already been born. Together with Franz Viehböck and the Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology) we invited pupils and students of Austrian schools and universities to participate in the contest “Born to Explore”.
ESA Citizens’ Debate: Deciding Europe’s Future on Space
Silvia Gimenéz Torregrosa, OeWF member from Spain and OeWF Social Media team member, participated in the first ESA Citizens debate on 10th September 2016. Read her report about the first #ESACD2016 in Madrid.
European Rover Challenge 2016: Inspiring new explorers
From 10-13 September, the annual European Rover Challenge, Europe’s largest space and robotic event, took place at the Exhibition and Congress Centre near Rzeszów in Southern Poland. It once again consisted of two parts: A rover competition where young engineers […]Building a spacesuit’s undercarriage
When I returned from my 6 months student exchange in Canada two months ago, the action was just about to begin. I had a fantastic time over there and got to experience at lot of cool stuff but the highlight […]
Caution and Warning Final Sprint
Project update: The Aouda caution and warning system (CWS) has been outlined in a number of previous posts, and we’re happy to report that progress is still being made! Anna Nelson’s internship came to an end a number of weeks […]