This document provides a reference for all scientist involved and also marks an Austrian commitment towards human spaceflight. The AustroMars Final Mission Report is an extensive (376 pages in the public version) work with the description of flight plans, daily reports, experiments, the work of mission control as well as reports of the public outreach activities, logistics lessons-learned and much more.
"Even if it sounds a bit strange, this is only a summary of what has happened during the AustroMars mission", resumes ASF president Gernot Grömer, MSc and editor of the report, "Of course it's not possible to document every single detail in a project of this size, which is why the report for sure has one or more surprises even for people involved in AustroMars".
For the preface Eduard Mainoni, MSc, departing State secretary of Research, and Apollo 15 Command Module pilot Al Worden (who heard about AustroMars project through Dr. Birgit Sattler of the BioMars Team), could be obtained. The US Mars Society and other institutions, which got a preview version, as well were strongly impressed about the size of the report.
Scientific results are rarely included in the report, because the analyses are still being published as independent bachelor, master or Phd works. In 2007 we released a peer-reviewed Proceeding, based on the Mars 2030 workshop, which is also available on this website.
A complete data set of the activities during the simulation can be found online in the digital Mission Science Archive (http://archive.austromars.at, you need to request an account for accessing the 15 GB archive.)
07.05.2007
