{"id":183969,"date":"2025-08-04T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=183969"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:19:47","slug":"the-serbian-flag-in-space-for-the-first-time-a-magnificent-gesture-of-a-turkish-businessman-in-honor-of-his-wife-jelena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/the-serbian-flag-in-space-for-the-first-time-a-magnificent-gesture-of-a-turkish-businessman-in-honor-of-his-wife-jelena\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SERBIAN FLAG IN SPACE FOR THE FIRST TIME: A magnificent gesture of a Turkish businessman in honor of his wife Jelena!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin yesterday sent a spaceship from its Van Horn, Texas base with Turkish businessman Gokhan Erdem, whose wife is Serbian, which is why he took the flags of Turkey and Serbia into space.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the flag of Serbia flew into space for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were eight passengers on the New Shepard NS-34 flight, none of whom were astronauts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the successful missions of Turkish astronauts Alper Gezeravc\u0131 and Tuva Cihangir Atasever through the National Space Program, Gokhan Erdem is the third space traveler from Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erdem is a member of the Board of Directors of Erdem Holding and became the first Turkish businessman in space and the first Turkish citizen to fly with Blue Origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Shepard NS-34 took off at 2:30 p.m. Serbian time, and the broadcast could be followed live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the flags of Turkey and Serbia, Erdem took the silhouette of the Bosphorus with him into space, as a symbol of his connections with Istanbul, as published on the Blue Origin website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to the items that other passengers on the NS 34 mission symbolically took with them, there was a globe representing Arvi Bahal’s passion for travel and polar expeditions, the shape of Puerto Rico, as a symbol of the homeland of meteorologist Debora Martorel, and Mount Everest, which pays tribute to Lionel Pitchford’s decades of work in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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