Alper Gezeravcıinto space Axiom Space It was taken out with the SpaceX-based Ax-3 / Axiom Mission 3 mission made by the company.
Chosen as Turkey’s first space traveler Alper Gezeravcı (Located on the far right in the photos) More specifically to space, the International Space Station (ISS) is from private space companies. Axiom Space and organized by SpaceX signed Falcon 9 capsule positioned in front of the rocket Crew Dragoncentering on Axiom Mission 3 He was removed from his duty. The long-awaited mission has moved to the next level with the smooth docking with the ISS in the past few minutes. The four-person multinational team was accepted after receiving approval from NASA and ISS partners. “task specialist” passed as Gezeravci next to him, Ax-3 Commander Michael López-AlegríaPilot Walter Villadei and other Mission Specialist Marcus Wandt is also included. The team will stay on the ISS for 14 days, then they arrive Crew Dragon It will return to Earth and make a relatively soft landing with parachutes.
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Here As reported, he graduated from the Air Force Academy as an electronics engineer. Gezeravci, afterwards US Air Force Institute of TechnologyHe completed his master’s degree in operational research at. Gezeravcı, an F-16 pilot, has accomplished important tasks and successes in the Air Force for 21 years. If there are no problems, the Ax-3 mission will be the first commercial astronaut mission to the ISS consisting of an all-European crew. Italy, Turkey and Sweden have come together through the European Space Agency (ESA) for Ax-3, which is the third manned mission of Axiom Space. To take Gezeravcı into space It is reported that Turkey paid a “seat fee” of around 55 million dollars.