My guest this week is Gernot Groemer, the founder of the Austrian Space Forum, which does things like organizing analog Mars missions, conducting space research, and building cubesats. Gernot also has his own popular science TV show in Austria.
This will also be the first episode where we will try something new:
We have regularly received follow-up questions from listeners and have been answering them ad-hoc. We now want to open this up to everybody: so, if you do have questions about the episode, please email them to us at spacebusinesspodcast@gmail.com. We will do our best to answer them all and if there is one that we judge of high general interest to all listeners, we will answer it on the next episode as well as on our Twitter.
Check out The Austrian Space Forum here.
Check out Gernot's science TV show here. (in German)
The Space Business Podcast is sponsored by NanoAvionics and produced in partnership with the International Space University (ISU). Follow the podcast on Twitter @podcast_space
If you got interested in learning more about the business opportunities in space, check out my online course at https://www.udemy.com/course/space-entrepreneurship/
If you speak German, also check out my recently published introductory book on the space economy.
Episode notes:
0:00 Intro
3:00 Space in Austria
5:15 What is the Austrian Space Forum and who can join it
10:51 Collaborations with students
11:52 Analog Mars missions
16:35 Psychology research during analog missions
18:00 Typical duration of an analog mission
19:06 Simulating restricted access to food and other mundane things
21:48 What kind of scientific experiments are analog astronauts conducting?
23:55 Robot usage in the analog missions
24:38 Handling limited expertise in experiments
27:22 What kind of people are good for missions and what kind of people apply?
33:38 The next analog mission
38:35 Other Forum projects
43:29 Apply to the Austrian Space Forum
43:47 Gernot's science TV show
47:26 What excites Gernot most about space at the moment?
48:29 Sci-fi
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