Being an analog astronaut is cool… But it’s much more!
Iñigo Muñoz Elorza, analog astronaut class of 2015, reports about his experience during the selection process and about his motivation to become an analog astronaut.
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Austrian Space Forum trains five new analog astronauts
Committee selected new trainees from a pool of around 100 applications 100 applications, 637 individual assessments, and three months later: one woman and four men from Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands have been selected to strengthen the Corps […]
Interview with Prof. Dr. Jesús Martinez-Frias – REDESPA Director
Marlen Raab interviewed Prof. Dr. Jesús Martinez-Frias, Senior Scientist at Instituto de Geociencias and Professor “Ad Honorem” at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Director of the Spanish Network of Planetology and Astrobiology (REDESPA).
1st combined SGAC – OeWF internship
Jacob Hacker reports about his internship at the OeWF in Innsbruck. For the 1st time the SGAC and the OeWF shared an internship.
The best pictures of the year 2014
Traditionally, on the last day of the year the Austrian Space Forum looks back: 2014 was a successful year! Besides many school activities all across Austria, research and development activities on our spacesuit simulator Aouda took place, as well as […]
Interview with Prof. Marco Durante and his research on cosmic radiation during spaceflight
Prof. Durante is the Director of the Biophysics Department, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
OeWF Pioneer Projects: Your Chance to implement new Topics within the Austrian Space Forum!
Do you have a gripping idea for a small OeWF project which you want to realize? For the first time, members of the Austrian Space Forum get the opportunity to fund their ideas for small or medium-term projects up to […]
Wearing the Aouda.X is Hard Work!
For a normal person, running a marathon might be considered to be extremely exhausting. However, for our analog astronauts wearing the Aouda.X space suit, just tying shoes can be exhausting work! My research project, as part of my Master’s degree […]
Researching, drawing, building – a typical intern week at the lab
We have been busy, so busy, we did not even find the time to write a report about our progress last week. So here comes the update of the last fortnight. First of all we would like to congratulate Taylor […]
Tiuterra Flight: Three crystals for the Space Station.
In cooperation with the World Space Week Association and Swarovski, the Austrian Space Forum initiated the Tiuterra project: Rock samples from all over the world were colected including specimen from Antarctica and the bottom of the sea floor during a […]