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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 […]
Getting your hands dirty for Mars: The second GeoScience Training in Innsbruck
2n GeoScience Training to prepare for geological field work in Morocco.
Aouda.D, ice princess
A very unusual spectacle, unlike any other which has been seen in the last millions of years, is waiting for future visitors of the Dachstein ice caves in Obertraun, Austria: when artificial light shows the ice formations, also the silver […]
Dachstein Mars Simulation 2012 Mission Report
he Austrian Space Forum performed a Mars Analogue-Field-test between the 27th of April and the 1st of May, together with international partners. The test took place in the Mammoth and Giant ice caves in the Dachstein Area in Austria. Aside […]
Summer in the lab, week 1
Reinhard Tlustos reports about his first summer week in the lab and the work he is doing.
Blind people to help space exploration
In the idea of always improving the comfort and operational capabilities of our suit-testers, we are now developing a project dealing with glove designing. Wearing a glove of any type reduces the sensations you feel, especially for our 3 layers’ […]