Tuva Atasever, a Turkish Space Agency astronaut, became Türkiye's second astronaut and considered it the "biggest honor and privilege of my life." Selected in 2022, he served as backup mission specialist for the Axiom Mission 3 and conducted seven experiments aboard VSS Unity as a research specialist. With a background in electrical and electronics engineering, photonics, and space studies, Tuva co-founded startups and worked on avionics systems and payload integration at ROKETSAN, Inc. before joining the Turkish Space Agency. Courtesy of Virgin Galactic.