Astronauts who came to Antalya for the 77th International Astronautical Congress met with students

Astronauts, including Türkiye's third space traveler Gökhan Erdem, visited the high school in Aksu district.

The astronauts examined the workshops at the high school, visited the UAV R&D center and the Boeing 737-40 passenger aircraft library, and answered students' questions in the school's conference hall.

Astronaut Gökhan Erdem, in his statement to journalists, said that he was very happy to see the value given to the students here.

Stating that there are materials in the hangars at the school where students can receive training in various fields, Erdem said, "It is very nice to see such a school in our country. I saw that intern students are recruited here from Europe. Students who will develop the aviation and space sector will be trained in such schools. Such schools are very valuable in this sense." he said.

Stating that there are many projects in Türkiye's national space move, Erdem continued as follows:

"There are countries that have come a long way in space, but space is not under the control of those countries, nor should it be. We should also exist here by developing our technologies. Our ministries, our space agency, and our industrialists are working on this issue and producing projects. I hope that we will continue to grow. Organizing this congress in Antalya is very important in this sense. We should benefit greatly from the congress."