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Summer time is Intern time: Meet the new Intern!
With the beginning of summer, our PolAres spacesuit laboratory in Innsbruck is switching to beehive mode. Interns are travelling from different countries to work with us during summer. Our newest intern joined us at the end of June from the […]
Red planet meets Tyrolean Women’s race: Inspiring the next generation for space
Our intern Taylor Moyer reports about the afternoon.
First 2-day Spacesuit Design Course held in Innsbruck
Taylor Moyer summarizes both course days, held on 16/17th June 2014![#AlexTweetup: as our adventures closes their adventure begins [Video]](https://oewf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/suited-walk-out_AGerst_rcallaghan.jpg)
#AlexTweetup: as our adventures closes their adventure begins [Video]
Wednesday 28th May 2014. It‘s launch day. Our press activities are scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m early evening. Launch time is planned for 01:57 a.m. in the morning. Therefore we had pretty much the day off to do whatever […]
#AlexTweetup: Last night on Earth
Travelling from Moscow to Baikonur is an adventure itself. Boarding times seem to be a suggestion. Also instead of a Yak plane, we flew with a Tupolev, which looked from the inside as it was built during the Soviet area. […]
#AlexTweetup – Space City Moscow, Part 2
It‘s Monday morning, 26th of May 2014. I‘m sitting at the Moscow airport waiting for our flight to Baikonur, which got delayed twice by now. So why not use the waiting time to write another blog post. I remember an […]
#AlexTweetup – Space City Moscow, Part 1
I‘ve been two days and three nights in Moscow staying in the Antihostel Cosmic, where you sleep in small capsule with at least 8 other people in same room, everyone in his own capsule. All of the #AlexTweetup people already […]
#AlexTweetup: Now it’s getting real
I’m ready for somebody else’s adventure. I’m excited to be part of the AlexTweetup (26th – 30th May 2014) group, travelling to Baikonur to see the launch of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Gregory Wiseman and Russian cosmonaut Maxim […]
Fresh from the press – the MARS2013 special edition of “Astrobiology”
The science journal Astrobiology just published a special edition of MARS2013 simulation.