Word Origin | Turks in Space

Russia's space agency Roscosmos is awaiting an offer from Turkish officials to collaborate on Ankara's most recent project to send a citizen to the moon. "We are expecting concrete offers to develop our mutual space projects, including the preparation of the Turkish team and their travel to space," Russian officials reportedly said. 

Mavi Boncuk |

A proposal came from President Erdogan, who wanted Turkish names to be found for Turkish space passengers, saying "I hope we are going to the moon". It became the main agenda of social media. 

The most recommended names are Türkonot, Göktürk, Gökçeri, Evrenot and Aktronaut. MHP leader Bahçeli suggested the name "Cacabey".

Suggestions in Turkish. 

'Gök' due to diacritical marks on letter u is properly no good.

GOKBEY

GOKER

GOKASKER

GOKKONOT

UZAYNOT

UZAYER

UZAYKONOT

FEZAVER

FEZAKONOT

TURKONOT

EVRENOT

EVRENER

Kozmonot: cosmonaut [1]

Astronot: astronaut [2] EN i. from FR astronaut. Uzaya gönderilen bir aracı kullanan veya böyle bir araçla uzaya giden kimse, uzay adamı, kozmonot.

[1] cosmonaut, astronaut: masculine and feminine noun

cosmonaut (n.)

"a Russian astronaut," 1959, Englishing of Russian kosmonavt, which is ultimately from Greek kosmos (see cosmo-) + nautes "sailor" (from PIE root *nau- "boat"). In reference to space travel, cosmonautic is attested by 1947.

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LE MONDE (2002)

[2] astronaut (n.) "space-traveler," 1929 in scientific speculation, popularized from 1961 by U.S. space program, a compound from Greek elements, from astro- "star" + Greek nautes "sailor," from PIE root *nau- "boat." French astronautique (adj.) had been coined 1927 by "J.H. Rosny," pen name of Belgian-born science fiction writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex, on model of aéronautique, and Astronaut was used in 1880 as the name of a fictional spaceship by English writer Percy Greg in "Across the Zodiac."

 Taikonaut: From Mandarin 太空 (tàikōng, “space”) +‎ -naut, modelled after astronaut, cosmonaut, spationaut, etc. The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (趙裡昱 (trad.)/赵里昱 (simpl.); pinyin: Zhào Lǐyù) from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media.

Spationaute: French astronaut. This is arely used. For example Thomas Gautier Pesquet is called a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut.

The Turkish Space Agency (Turkish: Türkiye Uzay Ajansı, TUA) is a government agency for national aerospace research in Turkey. It was formally established by a presidential decree on 13 December 2018.

Headquartered in Ankara, the agency is subordinated to the Ministry of Science and Technology. With the establishment of TUA, the Department for Aviation and Space Technologies at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was abolished. TUA will prepare strategic plans that include medium and long-term objectives, basic principles and approaches, objectives and priorities, performance measures, methods to be followed and resource allocation for aerospace science and technologies.

TUA works in close relation with the TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY). It is administrated by an executive board of seven members. The tenure of board members, the chairperson excluded, is three years.

PROJECTS

2021-2031 Program

Turkey in 2023 (the 100th year of the Republic) will perform moon hard landing.

A new company will be establish for satellite production.

Work will be for regional position.

A spaceport will be establish on the moon.

Competence in space will be increased by investing space weather and meteorology.

Meteorites / planets and more in space will be track anymore more from Earth.

Integrated studies the space industry will continue.

Space technology development zone will be establish.

Education about space / Undergraduate and doctorate etc.

A Turkish astronaut will be sent to space.