"I hope that every son and daughter of this country takes inspiration from this story, becoming a source of hope for the future!"
The Ax-3 mission, with Gezeravcı on board, launched late last week from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket of private space company SpaceX, and later docked with the International Space Station.
The four-person team will do more than 30 scientific experiments during their two-week stay, with Gezeravcı responsible for 13 of them.
