Österreichisches Weltraum Forum Austrian Space Forum
On the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing on 20th July 1969, the TASCHEN publisher issues a new XL illustrated book with photos from over 60 years from NASA Archives including photos never shown before. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seymour “Sy” Liebergot, born 1936, worked during the Apollo program as EECOM (EECOM (Electrical, Environmental and COMmunication systems). He was part of the team, that brought Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. OeWF: Technology advances let aside, what are the […]
It is July 1955, and the US have announced that they will build a satellite and send it into space during the Year of Geophysics in 1957/58. Only four days later, the Soviets announce the same plan – and no […]
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