As of summer 1994, Norbert Frischauf is an active member of the international space community. As such, he is a board member of the Austrian Space Forum and actively involved in the work of the United Nations Space Generation Advisory Council, the International Lunar Explorers Society and numerous science and technology outreach activities.

Being highly interested in all sorts of technologies, as well as the micro and macro cosmos, his educational and vocational career led him to several distinct places. First, Frischauf went to CERN in Switzerland, where he conducted his diploma thesis while collaborating in the development and operation of two detector experiments at the LEP Collider. He then attended the International Space University, where he participated in the 1997 Summer Session Program in Houston, Texas. Last but not least, he went to ESA/ESTEC in the Netherlands. While at ESA in 1998, he joined the project team of the ATV, a high-tech automated supply vehicle for the ISS, built and operated by ESA. When Aurora, the Solar System Exploration Initiative of ESA, culminating in a proposed manned landing on Mars around 2030, started to take shape, he supported this endeavor as a Future Studies Systems Engineer, providing technical expertise for advanced (nuclear) propulsion and power systems and coordinating the agency’s effort in the development of the 30-year long-term strategy to achieve these ambitious goals.

Frischauf is a High Energy Physicist (Astrophysics and Particle Physics) by education and a Future Studies Systems Engineer by training.

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