Man From Turkey Attempts To Send Kebab Into Space, Know What Happened Next

Ankara: Kebab is a very popular dish worldwide with many people in awe of this lip-smacking middle eastern cuisine. The extent to which people go crazy for it varies but, a man seems to have crossed all the limits.

Yasar Aydin, a kebab enthusiast from Turkey celebrated the 61st anniversary of the first human space flight by attempting to send the cooked meat dish to stratosphere. Although the attempt did not succeed, a video which captured his celebration has gone viral on the Internet.

In the video, a group of people can be seen tying the kebab to a large hot air balloon and releasing it. A camera was placed on the giant balloon so as to enable the viewers to catch a glimpse of it from ground zero.

The footage showed the kebab gaining enough altitude and the horizon was vividly visible.

The balloon containing the kebab travelled quite a distance and it flew over the the landscape, the sea and higher. But, after a while, it started to come down and finally it ended up splashing down into a water body.

The people who were behind this attempt immediately rushed to the site in a boat and collected the kebab. Despite the mission failing to get over the line, the morale of the crew was still high and they cheered the attempt.

According to a report in Daily Sabah, a Turkish daily, the kebab was launched into the stratosphere by Yasar Aydin on April 12, hours before the Iftar feast. A special box meant to withstand the high temperatures in the sky housed the kebab.

The box was mounted to a helium balloon and a camera along with a tracking device was fitted in it. Aydin also added onions and salads.

Meanwhile, April 12, 1961, was the day when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the Earth. Gagarin, only 27 then, crewed the first human orbital spaceflight named Vostok 1 alone. He entered the history books as the first human to journey into the outer space.

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