April webinar we explore Mars on Earth with an analog astronaut. Join on 30 April 2018, at 12:00 GMT / 14:00 CEST. Register and send your questions: https://goo.gl/forms/zcE7muAVoxEHk4Vo1
Mars is one of the most interesting places in our Solar System when it comes to looking for life outside of our planet. In the past, Mars had very similar conditions to those of Earth, with a moderate climate and liquid water, that could have sustained life as we know it. Whether life really developed on Mars and whether it might still exist, is one of the main reasons to explore the red planet. But Mars comes with many challenges that humankind has not faced before and in order to overcome them we need to study them and learn as much as we can about them, here on Earth. The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) does exactly that: we look for places on Earth that are similar to Mars and we test different technologies and experiments that we hope to use on Mars.
Joao Lousada is an analog astronaut at the OeWF and he is also the deputy field commander for the last OeWF mission: AMADEE18. He studied aerospace engineering and he is also a flight controller for the international space station, where he works together with international teams to help astronauts living and working in space.
