In 2024, important developments took place in the space world. Many rockets were launched, new records were broken, special space missions were carried out…

When you’re ready, put on your astronaut helmet and… Towards space-related developments in 2024 Let’s go on a journey.

Let’s start with our own pride: Turkey’s first astronaut was sent into space.

On January 9, 2024, Turkey’s first astronaut Alper Gezeravcı was sent to the International Space Station (ISS). Spend 14 days here with astronauts of different nationalities 13 different science experiments signed.

Among these experiments; oxygen production from microalgae, gene editing techniques, development of a new generation of space research and the effects of space radiation on humans There were topics like.

The record for cumulative time in space and number of people in orbit was broken.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko in space on February 4 The period of 878 days has been exceeded and broke a new record. After spending a total of 1,100 days in space, he returned to Earth and became the “Human Who Spent the Longest Time in Space”!

When the Soyuz MS-26 was launched into space on September 11, there were 19 people on Earth at the same time, a record. Almost era of public transportation in space would start 😛

The Starliner spacecraft performed its first crewed test flight.

You know, there were astronauts who went to space and never came back, that’s what we’re talking about. Boeing Starliner, which took off on June 5, is off the orbiter on its first crewed flight She became the first woman to become a pilot.

Thanks to this mission They can transport astronauts to the ISS using commercial spacecraft such as Starliner. They saw it.

Private space missions and tourism boomed.

SpaceX will launch Axiom Mission 3 to the ISS on January 18 It heralded a new era for special space missions.

The New Shepard vehicle from Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, flew sub-orbital (space flight: space flight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its orbit intersects the surface of the gravitational body from which it was launched) in February August 19 and 29. on tourist flights started.

In addition, SpaceX’s Polaris Down Mission, the first commercial spacewalk (non-starship activity), was held on September 10, and for the first time since Apollo. Travel the furthest distance from Earth was done. 1400km…

The one who launches the rocket, the one who launches…

On October 14, NASA launched the Europa Clipper to study Jupiter’s moon Europa, and ESA (European Space Agency) launched the DART mission on October 7 to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. Hera launched the spacecraft.

The United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, China’s Gravity-1, Europe’s Ariane 6 made its first flights.

As you can see, many developments took place in 2024 These developments will continue in 2025 is expected. This will be the subject of our other content. 🙂

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