The mission of the very first house traveler from Türkiye has been postponed resulting from climate circumstances, a prime Turkish official stated Thursday.
The Axiom Space’s third non-public astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is now anticipated to be launched on Jan. 17, from earlier deliberate Jan. 9, resulting from antagonistic climate and the planning of SpaceX.
“We will have to be a little more patient for the exciting journey,” Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır stated on social media platform X, previously generally known as Twitter.
The mission will ship the primary Turkish astronaut to house, Col. Alper Gezeravcı, who might be accompanied by Spanish, Italian and Swedish astronauts.
Axiom Space’s chief astronaut and former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria will command the mission.
Italian Air Force Col. Walter Villadei will function a pilot. Gezeravcı and European Space Agency (ESA) undertaking astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden are the 2 mission specialists.
Ax-3 crew will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside a Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Once docked, the astronauts plan to spend as much as 14 days aboard the orbiting laboratory implementing a mission comprised of science, outreach and industrial actions.
During the mission, Gezeravcı will take part in 13 scientific experiments on the International Space Station.
Türkiye chosen Gezeravci, a Turkish Air Force F-16 pilot, because the nation’s first potential house traveler earlier this 12 months through the main expertise occasion, Teknofest.
The Turkish Space Agency was established in 2018 and introduced its house program in 2019, in addition to its intention to ship a crewed mission into house.
Source: www.dailysabah.com