A short bio
1957-03-31 – Date of Birth in Vienna
1975-1984 – Technical University Vienna, degree in architecture in 1984
1985 – military service, Austrian Air Force
1986-1993 – experience in some engineering offices
since 1994 – freelancing architect and consulting engineer
since 1987 – studies on space stations, space colonies and asteroid resource utilization
Published papers and books:
1993 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AIAA:11th SSI Princeton Conference “Space Manufacturing 9, The High Frontier, Accession, Development and Utilization”: Astropolis -Space Colonization in the 21st Century, Antonio Germano, Werner Grandl, pages 252-268
1995 International Academy of Astronautics: IAA-95-IAA.1.3.03 Commercial Asteroid Resource Development and Utilization; Oct.1995, Oslo, Norway; Thomas Taylor, Global Outpost Inc., Dr. Anthony C. Zuppero, Idaho National Engineering Lab, Antonio Germano, Werner Grandl
2007 Lunar Base 2015 Stage 1 – Preliminary Design Study, Werner Grandl, ACTA ASTRONAUTICA, Journal of the International Academy of Astronautics, Volume 60, Numbers 4-7, February-April 2007, pages 554-560
2008 Space Colony from a Commercial Asteroid Mining Company Town, Thomas Taylor, Werner Grandl, Martina Pinni, Haym Benaroya, “Space Technology and Applications International Forum 2008”, Albuquerque, New Mexico, pages 934-941, American Institute of Physics, Melville, USA
2009 Asteroid Impact – the Ultimate Disaster, Werner Grandl, in: “Disaster Advances Journal”, Oct. 2009, Vol.2 (4), Indore, India, pages 32-35
2010 Design and Construction of a Modular Lunar Base, Werner Grandl, in: “Lunar Settlements”, edited by Haym Benaroya, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, pages 509-517
2012 Building the First Lunar Base – Construction, Transport, Assembly, Werner Grandl, in: “Moon – Prospective Energy and Material Resources”, edited by Viorel Badescu, pringer-Verlag, pages 633-640
2013 Near Earth Asteroids – Prospection, Orbit Modification, Mining and Habitation, Werner Grandl, Akos Bazso, in: “ Asteroids – Prospective Energy and Material Resources”, edited by Viorel Badescu, Springer-Verlag, pages 415-438
2015 The Teleoperated Rocket Crane TRC – a Versatile Spacecraft for Lunar Operations, Werner Grandl, Clemens Böck, presented in the Poster-Session of the ESA-Symposion “Moon 2020-2030 A New Era of Coordinated Human and Robotic Exploration”, ESTEC, Noordwijk, 15-16 December 2015
2016 Utopia Solis – Leben im Sonnensystem, Werner Grandl, Weishaupt Verlag, A-8342 Gnas, ISBN 978-3-7059-0385-2 (also available as e-book)
2017 Human life in the Solar System, Werner Grandl, in: REACH -Reviews in Human Space Exploration, Volume 5, March 2017, Pages 9-21
2017 AGOS – Artificial Gravity Orbital Station, a possible successor of the ISS International Space Station, Werner Grandl, Clemens Böck, in: Research Gate, www.researchgate.net
2018 Outer Solar System – Sample Return Mission by an Unmanned Interplanetary Spaceship UNIS, Werner Grandl, Akos Baszo, Andreas F. Felsenstein, in: “Outer Solar System – Prospective Energy and Material Resources”, edited by Viorel Badescu, Springer-Verlag
2020 An Initial Lunar Camp combining rigid structures with inflatable elements Werner Grandl, Clemens Böck, in: Research Gate, www.researchgate.net
2022Modeling a lunar base mushroom farm, V.S. Kovalev, W. Grandl, N.S. Manukovsky, A.A. Tikhomirov, C. Böck, in: Life Sciences in Space Research 33 (2022) 1-6, © 2022 The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), published by Elsevier B.V. Tulln, Austria 2022-05-01 Werner Grandl
