The executive council for Yuri’s Night, The World Space Party, is pleased to announce the launch of a new fund-raising campaign at SpaceRaffle.net, the world’s first long term raffle campaign supporting a space cause.
Starting with a raffle of up to $500 in travel / accommodation funds to attend any Yuri’s Night celebration, the Space Raffle plans to follow this with raffles of Zero Gravity flights of the same type of airplane traveling in parabolic flight patterns simulating weightlessness that NASA uses for microgravity experiments and the training of astronauts.
The long term goal is to support as many Yuri’s Night parties around the world through these raffles as we can, and eventually to host the world’s first Zero Gravity Football charity tournament with raffle winners in teams competing on behalf of their favorite space cause. Support Yuri’s Night today by buying a ticket on http://SpaceRaffle.net now!
Yuri’s Night is pleased to announce a new collaboration with StarPeace. The StarPeace Project is an international project that holds common and public star parties near the borders between different countries in cooperation with astronomy groups from those countries for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
This collaboration comes about because we share the idea that space is not just a place to explore, but a tool through which we can bring people together. StarPeace and Yuri’s Night have now joined forces in order to promote our shared ideal of unity through the common love of space. We at Yuri’s Night are very excited to be collaborating with StarPeace, using space in order to improve life here on Earth.
Throughout history, people from every corner of the globe and from every walk of life have gazed in wonderment at the beauty that lies beyond our humble planet. The great beyond of our magnificent Universe has been a dream for all people no matter their race, ethnicity, religion, culture, or nationality.
We hope that between Yuri’s Night and StarPeace, people all over the world will find a way to use space to connect, not only with the Universe, but with each other. StarPeace has already brought people in Iran and the UAE together through their shared love of astronomy in the StarPeace Opening Event for International Year of Astronomy.
For more information on StarPeace, visit http://www.starpeace.org and help make possible this dream of cooperation through our common love of space.
Contributions for this post came from Michael Bouchey of StarPeace.
Title: International Sidewalk Astronomy Night
Location: International
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Description: Clubs around the world are participating in this annual event of stellar and planetary viewing–will your YN event be one of them?
Date: 2009-04-04
Title: 100 Hours of Astronomy
Location: International
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Description: 100 hours of round-the-clock public astronomical events and skywatching sessions.
Start Date: 2009-04-02
End Date: 2009-04-05
"Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it!"
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