The first Turkish astronaut
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On 18 January 2024 Alper Gezeravcı became the first Turkish astronaut, travelling to the International Space Station on the Axiom-3 mission. He spent about two weeks on the station and carried out 13 scientific experiments prepared by Turkish institutions led by TÜBİTAK. The mission is the first step in the Turkish Space Agency's human spaceflight programme.
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Axiom Mission 3 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center with Michael López-Alegría, Walter Villadei, Alper Gezeravcı and Marcus Wandt. The mission lasted about 21 days, ending with splashdown in the Atlantic on 9 February 2024. Experiments included studies of metabolism, plant growth and material behaviour in microgravity.
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- WebAlper Gezeravcı, Axiom Space astronaut. Axiom Spaceaxiomspace.comarchive
- Web (2024). Türkiye's first astronaut reaches the International Space Station. TÜBİTAKtubitak.gov.trarchive
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Athena contributors. (2026). The first Turkish astronaut. Athena: The tree of human knowledge. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://latifkedi.github.io/athena/en/d/turk-astronot/
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