Turkey aims for moon by 2023 as UAE reaches Mars
>Turkey's president announced he wants to send a spacecraft to the moon by Turkey's centennial the same day regional rival the United Arab Emirates reached Mars.
Turkey unveiled its space program and plans to go to the moon on Tuesday, the day a United Arab Emirates space probe reached Mars’ orbit.
>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised a lunar voyage within two years, saying, “We will go to the moon in 2023.”
>Erdogan made the comments during a Turkish Space Agency meeting. The agency, which was founded in 2018, outlined a 10-year plan for Turkish space exploration. The first goal is to reach the moon in 2023, the centennial of modern Turkey. Other goals include sending a Turkish citizen to space, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2021/02/turkey-moon-2023-erdogan-space-uae-mars-emirates-lunar.html
Turkey will land in the Moon before SLS flights.
>Turkey's president announced he wants to send a spacecraft to the moon by Turkey's centennial the same day regional rival the United Arab Emirates reached Mars.
Turkey unveiled its space program and plans to go to the moon on Tuesday, the day a United Arab Emirates space probe reached Mars’ orbit.
>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised a lunar voyage within two years, saying, “We will go to the moon in 2023.”
>Erdogan made the comments during a Turkish Space Agency meeting. The agency, which was founded in 2018, outlined a 10-year plan for Turkish space exploration. The first goal is to reach the moon in 2023, the centennial of modern Turkey. Other goals include sending a Turkish citizen to space, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2021/02/turkey-moon-2023-erdogan-space-uae-mars-emirates-lunar.html
Turkey will land in the Moon before SLS flights.
