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When looking to settle down beyond Earth, on Mars or the Moon for example, we often focus almost exclusively on the technological aspects. We are researching how to build and land spaceships that can take humans safely to their new […]
The winners of the Born2Explore student contest at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne On February 16-17, 2017, the students Michael Berghold, Leon Sereinig and Matthias Kaplan visited ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, organized by the Austrian Space Forum […]
I learned about the OeWF in a lecture about Mars held by Gernot Groemer at the University of Innsbruck. When the time came to find a project for the bachelor thesis for my mechatronics program, I remembered Dr. Groemer mentioning […]
When I returned from my 6 months student exchange in Canada two months ago, the action was just about to begin. I had a fantastic time over there and got to experience at lot of cool stuff but the highlight […]
Project update: The Aouda caution and warning system (CWS) has been outlined in a number of previous posts, and we’re happy to report that progress is still being made! Anna Nelson’s internship came to an end a number of weeks […]
From the 25th to the 29th of July 2016, the 7th General Electric’s Holiday Activity Week for children took place. This year, the motto was “Young Stars”, and thus, the Austrian Space Forum also was a part of it and […]
It’s been one month here and I have learnt tons of things working. I wouldn’t say everything is going according to the schedule, but I believe research projects are like this, we hope that something will work and go further […]
From speed mentoring to skype conferences – learning how to network with space enthusiasts Sophie’s highlights: After the great feedback we received for our paper on Monday I thought:” Well, it can´t get any much better.” But then, Tuesday came […]
Close encounters with the Mars kind “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie” Today, in […]
After finding out about the Space Event of the TU Vienna Space Team through the Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF) in spring 2016, it didn’t take me long to decide: I had to go! Shortly after, I joined the ÖWF and […]
