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The OeWF conducts interdisciplinary research \\ with international partners on exploration strategies for future human Mars expeditions.
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Junior Analog Astronaut Program<\/a><\/h2>written by Claudia Gollner and Nathan Pili Before the analog astronaut B-selection, we were told that part of the process would involve presenting to students about a topic of our choosing. What we didn\u2019t know was that these students were […]<\/div>
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The First Mission: Becoming a Team<\/a><\/h2>written by Renana Bruckstein and Arfor Houwman, Analog Astronauts class of 2026 When you are on a mission – whether in space, in an extreme environment on Earth, or even in a high-performance setting in everyday life – you have […]<\/div>
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From Concept to Prototype:\u00a0Bringing the Caillou Instrument to Life<\/a><\/h2>After defining the mission requirements and exploring several design concepts in our previous article, the next challenge was to transform those ideas into a functional prototype. A scientific instrument is only valuable if it can be operated efficiently in the […]<\/div>
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Austrian Space Forum Trains Six New Analog Astronauts<\/a><\/h2>Two are from the UK Today, the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) presented its six new analog astronauts. For the four women and their two male colleagues, a globally unique training program, currently offered only by the Austrian Space Forum, is […]<\/div>
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Synthetic Raman Spectrometer for AMADEE-27<\/a><\/h2>As part of the upcoming AMADEE-27 Mars analog mission in Portugal, our team is hard at work on the \u201cCaillou\u201d project. Our goal is to develop a functional prototype of a Synthetic Raman Spectrometer, a payload designed to be integrated […]<\/div>
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Walking on Mars and the Moon on Earth<\/a><\/h2>Leon Deutsch from the Medical University Vienna, together with Prof. Dr. Nandu Goswami from the Medical University of Graz, teamed up with the Austrian Space Forum to study the human body locomotion under (simulated) reducted gravity at the Vertical Treadmill, […]<\/div>
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