Turkey Pushed for Its Own Astronaut on Space Shuttle

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 - 16:30 in Astronomy & Space

In exchange for buying Boeing jets, Turkey wanted a Turkish astronaut to fly on a NASA space shuttle, according to a classified state department message recently released by Wikileaks.

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