President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a gathering with the crew of the Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3), which included Türkiye’s first astronaut Alper Gezeravcı.
The assembly came about on the Presidential Complex within the capital Ankara.
Astronauts Col. Walter Villadei from Italy’s Air Force, Sweden’s Marcus Wandt, a former fighter pilot chosen as a reserve astronaut by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2022, and Michael Lopez-Alegria attended the assembly with Erdoğan, in addition to Türkiye’s Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır.
No particulars have been supplied concerning the closed-door assembly.
In February, Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) crew returned in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast, the place it was intercepted and introduced aboard a restoration boat.
While in orbit, the astronauts performed about 30 science experiments, studying extra concerning the influence of microgravity on the human physique, advancing industrial processes, and extra. They additionally chatted with schoolchildren and officers from their nations.
About half of the experiments have been performed by Gezeravcı alone.
The mission was initially meant to final two weeks, however the return journey was delayed by a number of days owing to dangerous climate, leading to an 18-day keep on the ISS.
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