The skewer was carefully placed on a polystyrene tray with small crudités.
This is the first trip of a kebab into space.
"I decided to send a kebab dish into space because I wanted to be the first," smiles Yasar Aydin.
This restaurateur from Adana wanted to pay tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut to have traveled in space, on April 12, 1961. And to the kebab.
This traditional and iconic dish from southern Turkey.
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It was equipped with a box specially designed to withstand the extreme weather conditions of space.
And a camera and a GPS plotter to follow the great adventure.
“I contacted an aerospace company and they said they could take care of it.
So we did this together!
“, he says.
Five hours of flight and 38 km altitude later, the helium balloon carrying the crew burst, leaving the kebab to land in the Mediterranean, 121 km from the take-off point.
