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Azerbaijani origin Turkish astronaut completes his space mission-UPDATED

08 June 2024 21:00 (UTC +04:00)

Türkiye's astronaut of Azerbaijani origin, Tuva Cihangir Atasever, has successfully completed his mission in space, APA reports.

The flight started at 18:30 Baku time (08:30 local time) and lasted for one hour and twenty minutes. Approximately 40 minutes into the flight, the space capsule carrying the astronauts separated from the launch vehicle. During the next 15 minutes, scientific experiments were conducted. Subsequently, the space capsule and then the launch vehicle made successful landings back on Earth.

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Tuva Cihangir Atasever, Türkiye's second astronaut, announced Thursday that during his space mission on Saturday, he will carry the flag of Azerbaijan alongside the Turkish flag on his chest. "Just as these two nations stand side by side on Earth, they will also be side by side during my space journey," Atasever stated, APA reports citing Anadolu Agency.

Atasever told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the "Turkish Space Science Mission Suborbital Research Flight" on June 8 is part of the Ax-3 mission, which began in April 2023 in Houston, Texas, U.S., and extends to the International Space Station (ISS). He emphasized that this is a training step with no additional cost, saying, "The Ministry of Industry and Technology, TÜBİTAK Space, and the Turkish Space Agency (TUA) have turned this training step into a scientific mission. We selected seven different scientific experiments and have been working on integrating them into the spacecraft for months. We created a new scientific mission without any additional cost."