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Anniversary – 10 years of AustroMars, Part 4
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 […]
Anniversary – 10 years of AustroMars, Part 3
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 […]
From California to the Red Planet: the next generation of Mars pioneers
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, […]
Anniversary – 10 years of AustroMars, Part 2
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) […]
First Analog Mission Basic training: a sign of good things to come!
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 […]
Anniversary – 10 years of AustroMars, Part 1
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 […]
ASE Executive Committee gives GO for 29th Planetary Congress
The ASE Executive Committee meeting took place last weekend from 1st – 3rd April 2016 in Vienna. ASE Executive Director Andy Turnage and astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts from the international executive committee met with the ASE 2016 host Franz Viehboeck […]
Official XXIX Planetary Congress Poster released
The official poster for the ASE XXIX Planetary Congress from 3-7 October 2016 in Vienna was released. The center image symbolizes the congress host city Vienna with a golden Vienna silhouette and the Edelweiss flower with the Austrian flag in […]
Pegasus to OeWF – Can you hear me?
The nano satellite “Pegasus” is scheduled to finally launch by the end of 2016. It is the Austrian contribution to an EU project which aims to put 50 nano satellites into space. The Austrian Space Forum is participating in the […]