Turkish restaurateur celebrates the 61st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight with a very Turkish twist - by launching a spicy Adana kebab into space One small step for a kebab ...

Yasar Aydin, a kebab maker from Adana, tried to send a kind of kebab known as 'Boru kebabı' into space with a weather balloon he had prepared with a group of about 30 people. After a 3-hour ...

They launched the kebab from the southern Turkish city of Adana with a huge helium balloon for lift. After three hours, the kebab reached an altitude of around 38 kilometres (23.6 miles ...