Istanbul to host world's biggest mobile space exhibition

By Ugur Aslanhan

ISTANBUL (AA) - NASA's Space Adventure Exhibition, also known as the world's biggest mobile space exhibition, will open for the public in Istanbul on Nov. 16.

With its interactive zones, the exhibition will give visitors a chance to experience spacewalking and learn how pilots are trained for space programs in F-18 fighter jets, a statement by NASA Exhibition said.

Space-related projects will be exhibited on an area of 2,300 square meters in Metropol Istanbul Mall.
It will also show how space studies have developed historically both in Turkey and across the world.

The theme of the exhibition was developed in collaboration with Istanbul Technical University and designed to appeal to all ages, the statement added.

The exhibition has been visited by more than 4 million people in 12 countries in four years.