What experiments will be done by the first Turk to go to space has been announced (13 experiments in 14 days)
May 8, 2023
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Turkey’s first passengers to go into space were announced last week at Teknofest Istanbul. These names are those who served as F-16 pilots in the Air Force. Alper
Turkey’s first passengers to go into space were announced last week at Teknofest Istanbul. These names are those who served as F-16 pilots in the Air Force. Alper Gezer Avci and worked as a systems engineer at Roketsan. Tuva Cihangir Atasever used to be.
In partnership with the private aerospace company Axiom Space, the names to be sent to the International Space Station with the SpaceX spacecraft experiments he will carry out here. announced. TÜBİTAK also shared the definition of 13 experiments.
The first Turkish space traveler will perform these tasks on the International Space Station:
1. UYNA (next generation alloys for space)
The work to produce high-temperature, high-strength alloys will be carried out using the ELF in the KIBO module. The effects of non-gravity media on properties such as thermophysical and crystal growth during melting and solidification processes will be investigated. It is intended to make a significant contribution to our country’s ability to develop new generation materials for the aerospace, aviation and defense industries.
2. gMETAL (non-gravity effect on the dynamics of solid phase particles in a liquid)
The effect of gravity on the formation of a homogeneous mixture between solid particles and liquid medium under chemically inert conditions will be investigated. For example, spacecraft propulsion systems will be made more efficient.
3. Specialist (Microalgal Life Support Units for Space Missions)
It aims to develop, together with Science Mission partner TÜBİTAK MAM, a life support system to perform growth and endurance tests under non-gravity conditions, investigate their metabolic changes and evaluate their CO2 capture performance and O2 production capacities of microalgae species that adapted to the harsh world conditions.
4. EXTRAMOPHYTE (Exploring the Extreme Halophyte Schrenkiella Parvula in Responses to Space Salt Stress)
It aims to reveal the transcriptome by next-generation sequencing (RNA-seq) in A. thaliana and S. parvula plants grown in space and soil exposed to salt stress, and to reveal some physiological and molecular responses of glycophytic and halophytic plants to salt stress in microgravity.
5. METABOLOME (Analysis of changes in metabolomes/transcriptomes of astronauts in space missions and creation of national omics datasets)
It aims to expose the negative effects of space conditions on human health. In addition, to mitigate these negative effects, it aims to investigate the physiological and biochemical changes in the gene expressions and metabolisms of our astronaut participating in the space mission under the influence of environmental conditions in space.
6. MYELOID (studying the effect of radiation exposure on peripheral blood myeloid-derived suppressor cells, which are precursor lesions to cancer, in individuals participating in space missions)
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MCDs) are a heterogeneous population of immature myeloid cells that are highly produced in chronic inflammatory processes such as cancer, which suppress the immune system and support cancer progression and metastasis. With this study, the goal is to measure and evaluate the travel and space conditions, cosmic radiation damage to which space mission participants will be exposed, immunologically at the level of MCKD cells.
It aims to detect genes affected by the non-gravity environment, whose function has yet to be discovered, and determine which immune cells are directly affected by gravity in space missions, using CRISPR gene-engineering methods.
8. ALGALSPACE (a comparative study of Antarctic and temperate microalgae cultivation in space conditions)
By comparing the growth data of Antarctic and temperate zone microalgae in space, a study of the use of polar algae in space will be conducted for the first time in the literature. Algae in space: regeneration of O2 from CO2, supplementary food supply, water remediation, life support purposes will be explored for use.
9. CRISPR – GEM (Investigating CRISPR gene editing efficiency in plants under microgravity)
It aims at understanding and developing plant defense mechanisms, which form the skeleton of bioregenerative life support systems designed to solve the problem of not providing a sustainable system in long-duration space missions, which is one of the biggest obstacles that must be overcome. for humanity’s future in space, against biological and non-biological stresses that arise during space missions. As a result, it aims to investigate the effectiveness of the CRISPR technique, one of the modern gene editing techniques of molecular biology, on plants in a microgravity environment.
10. PRANET (antibacterial effect of propolis)
Propolis is a substance that is widely used in the treatment of various ailments and has no side effects when used externally. The scientific mission investigates the effect of propolis on bacteria in a microgravity environment. By forming control and experimental groups, the antibacterial activity of propolis will be tested and it will be compared whether the results will give comparable results with the gravity environment.
11. VOKALKORD (Detection of vital responses against life in space by vocal cord-induced changes and identification of perturbations caused by low gravity with sound frequencies)
With the support of artificial intelligence within the physiology of the respiratory system, the aim is to detect the frequency change disturbances in the sound and to investigate the effects of the effects of the non-gravity environment on the human voice.
12. OXYGEN SATURATION (Identification of conditions caused by low gravity by calculating the oxygen level of the supplied air with the support of artificial intelligence in the physiology of the respiratory system)
Early diagnosis is essential in the treatment of disease. It aims to identify the differences and disturbances caused by low gravity by calculating the oxygen level of the air using artificial intelligence.
13. MIYOKA (Lead-free Solder Research in Microgravity Environment)
With the lead-free soldering experiment to be conducted in a microgravity environment, the first Turkish space traveler will assemble lead-free components on the electronic board in the ISS. Electronic boards to be delivered to the world after the space mission will be subject to detailed research by TUBITAK UZAY and the effects of microgravity on the lead-free soldering process will be reported for use by the scientific community.
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