Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank, in a statement he made at the beginning of this year, stated that the candidates for the first Turk to go to space were determined and one of them was a military pilot, but he did not reveal any names. Visiting the ongoing TEKNOFEST event at Istanbul Atatürk Airport, President Erdoğan said that Turkey’s first space passenger Alper Gezeravci declared that.
The first Turk to go to space: Alper Gezeravci
President Erdoğan used the following statements in his speech at TEKNOFEST for the first space travelers of our country;
We identified our two space travelers. We would like to thank our thousands of citizens who applied.
The meeting time of our space traveler with space is planned as the last quarter of 2023. It’s time to get to know our space travelers. Our brother Alper Gezeravcı is a heroic Turkish pilot who has achieved great success in the Air Force.
It will stay on the International Space Station for 14 days. The substitute name is Tuva Cihangir Atasever. The substitute name is Tuva Cihangir Atasever.
In this mission, our space traveler will perform 13 different experiments prepared by the valuable universities and research institutions of our country.
Alper Gezeravci who?
Born on December 2, 1979 in Mersin, Alper Gezeravcı is an F-16 pilot who has been serving in the Air Force Command for 21 years.
Gezeravcı graduated from the Air Force Academy as an Electronics Engineer and completed his master’s degree in Operations Research at the US Air Force Institute of Technology.
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