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Christmas, born out there
Research means the encroachment into virgin soil. Wishes are packed in thoughts, goals are set and the painful works start to get answers. The Austrian Space Forum gave me the chance to push the experimental part of research forward into […]
Mars2013: First Steps
An international team of over sixty volunteers and project partners assembled on Sunday and Monday at the OEWF Mission Control Center in Innsbruck, Austria. Over the course of the two days, the team engaged in a dress rehearsal in preparation […]
Dress Rehearsal for Mars2013 in pictures
That was it for the Dress Rehearsal for Mars2013, the most complex Mars Analog Field Simulation the Austrian Space Forum has ever planned. Between 7th and 10th December 100 volunteers and project partners met in Innsbruck for the big “Dress […]
Space medicine: Inhale, Rusty!
NASA designs nasal spray for motion sickness Catching a cold in the frostiness of space is obvious. So why bother? Well, medical research in aerospace can also have essential impact on our lives here on earth. Surprisingly in the […]
OeWF and SGAC sign Memorandum of Understanding
The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) and the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding at the University of Applied Sciences in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. OeWF and SGAC have common interests in promoting space activities and strengthening […]
First Analog Astronaut Training Weekend
Luca Foresta, analog astronaut candidate reports from the 1st training weekend (21-23. Sept. 2012).
Interview with Diego Urbina, Mars500 participant
Marlen Raab interviewed Mars500 participant Diego Urbina for the Austrian Space Forum.
Nose Dive into the unknown, Passepartout Sherpa III Airsampler 2 Neil Armstrong
Thursday, 30th of August: Meteorology versus Intuition
On rocky roads with Sherpa I Viktor Hess balloon
Saturday, 1st of September 2012: On rocky roads In 2012 we celebrate “Victor Hess Year”, to honour the Austrian physicist who discovered the cosmic radiation during a balloon flight in 1912. He can be seen as the father of Particle […]