Chef Launches Kebab Into Space With Helium Balloon: 'Aliens Sent It Back' [Watch]

A juicy kebab took the internet by storm after a Turkish chef tried to send it to space.

It later came crashing into the sea, making the man behind the mission wonder if it had more pepper than aliens could handle.

Chef Yaşar Aydın, the owner of a kebab shop, joined forces with Idris Albayrak, a space engineering student, to send the object into space. The kebab soared into the air with the help of a helium balloon.

The unusual launch took place Tuesday in the Turkish city of Adana. Aydın specifically chose April 12 for the launch to honor the International Day of Human Space Flight, which is remembered as the day Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to complete one orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961, according to the Indian Express.

The restaurant owner contacted the required institutions and organizations before carrying out the unusual launch. The now-famous kebab was wrapped around a steel pipe instead of the usual skewer, and a special box was included in the launch design to hold out against the extreme temperatures.

A video uploaded on YouTube showed the kebab on a custom tray with some garnish on the side. It was sent up into the sky with a helium balloon. Meanwhile, cameras tracked what Network 10 reported as a "world-first" type of launch.

The kebab took off and journeyed upward to an altitude of more than 23 miles before the balloon exploded mid-air. The five-hour flight for the kebab ended with the piece of meat landing in the sea off the coast of Hatay with the help of a parachute, according to Euronews.

Some fish in the water pecked at the kebab before Aydın and his crew retrieved the meat with the help of a tracking device.

"I think aliens sent it back because it had too much pepper. I will send a dish with less pepper next time," Aydın joked, as per Network 10.

"I am a person who always likes firsts, and I plan to have many other different projects. As I'm a kebab maker, my projects are always about kebab," Aydın further said. "We were able to launch the kebab to a certain level of the atmosphere right now, but maybe we will aim to raise it even higher in the future. We will deliver this kebab all over the world."