Atasever’s space journey will be broadcast live in Kayseri

Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç invited the people of Kayseri to watch live the suborbital flight of Turkish Astronaut Tuva Cihangir Atasever, scheduled to take place on June 8, 2024. The activities and events supporting Turkey’s achievements in the field of space sciences and attracting the interest of space enthusiasts in Kayseri continue at the Kayseri Science Center. In this context, the suborbital flight of Turkish Astronaut Tuva Cihangir Atasever, planned to take place on June 8, 2024, in the state of New Mexico, USA, will be broadcast live at an event to be held at the Kayseri Science Center between 17.00 and 19.00. Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç, who invites the people of Kayseri to witness this historic day, stated, ‘Our astronaut Tuva Cihangir Atasever will hopefully perform the suborbital flight on Saturday, June 8, weather permitting. We will witness this flight at our Kayseri Science Center through a live broadcast from the Spaceport facilities of Virgin Galactic company in the state of New Mexico, USA. I invite our space enthusiast fellow residents, especially our young people and little ones, to witness this historic moment and to the activities we will organize.’ Mayor Büyükkılıç also announced that special activities will be organized as part of the day, including watching the flight live, sky puzzle, rocket circuit, and astronomy discussions. The second Turkish Astronaut Tuva Cihangir Atasever’s suborbital flight scheduled for June 8, 2024, is planned to last approximately 1.5 hours. In this flight, the ‘VSS Unity’ suborbital vehicle that will carry Atasever is expected to reach an altitude of about 14 kilometers through a carrier aircraft. Subsequently, the vehicle will ignite its hybrid rocket motor to reach an altitude between 85 kilometers and 90 kilometers. During a microgravity environment of approximately 3 minutes in the suborbital flight of Astronaut Tuva Cihangir Atasever, 7 experiments will be conducted, ranging from biological molecules to genetic analysis, from metabolic changes to suppressive cells, from insulin pen tests to radiation analysis. It is expected that the experiments to be carried out in different disciplines by Atasever will make significant contributions to the research conducted by our scientists.