Hungary plans to send another research astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). Gyula Cserényi. According to the MTI agency, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced this on Tuesday in Washington, the TASR correspondent in Budapest reports.
According to the head of Hungarian diplomacy, his country benefited significantly economically from the previous mission. Hungarian research astronaut Tibor Kapu completed an 18-day mission on the ISS in June and July. As his replacement, Cserényi completed the same astronaut training.
On Tuesday, Szijjártó will meet with the head of Axiom Space, which also carried out the previous mission, to discuss the continuation of Hungary’s space program.
“The Axiom mission performed 60 scientific experiments on the ISS that cannot be performed under Earth conditions. 25 of them were carried out by the Hungarian astronaut as part of his own research program in cooperation with Hungarian companies, research laboratories, universities and educational institutions,” underlined Szijjártó, adding that the government’s goal is “to maintain the leading position in the region that Hungary has achieved in space research”.
“We already have a trained astronaut, we have a good American cooperating partner, we have scientific results, it is clear that the economy benefits from this and we have achieved a leading position in our region, so we must continue to do so,” added the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
