[TURKISH SPACESHIP DESIGN / BROCHURE / EPHEMERA] [Brochure and business card] Galileo: Mekik Gemi Projesi [i.e., Galileo: The Project of Space Shuttle]

BASARAN, TUNCAY (Designed and published by).

Ankara, [early 90s].

Original tripled leaflet brochure. Folded 21x10 cm, open 21x30 cm. In Turkish. Ills.

Uncommon and entertaining ephemera from 90s, privately published as a brochure by a Turkish amateur, of a space shuttle titled “Galileo” including its introduction, features, usage areas (space tourism), design, security, and performance, etc.

A detailed Turkish text onto verso with illustrations showing the design of the shuttle onto the recto. A business card attached with a couple of corrections by hand on phone numbers. 

We couldn’t find any biographical information about the designer Tuncay Basaran. Provenance: Haktan Akdogan’s Collection, the founder of the Turkish UFO Museum, and modern Ufology in Turkey.

As of May 2024, we couldn’t trace any online copies of this interesting ephemeral piece.