Yuri’s Night | The World Space Party

Final YN update for YN09 is a quick one. Yuri’s Night will hold its final 2009-based activities–and start gearing up for YN10–at the 28th annual International Space Development Conference, being held this weekend in Orlando, FL.
Pending last-minute changes, we’ll be meeting on Friday afternoon at 5:30 PM in the Augusta room of the Omni Resort [...]

Even with our maps and our party counters, it can be difficult sometimes to see just how massive and global a celebration Yuri’s Night is each year. It might help, as we continue to wind down our Yuri’s Night 2009 festivities, to take a look at just how wide and deep the coverage for YN [...]

Nearly a week after the last official day for Yuri’s Night events, we’re finally beginning to catch our breath and look back at the more than 200 (a new record!) parties and events that have been held around the world. Not to say that we’re completely done celebrating this year; the University of Michigan SEDS [...]

Not too much to report this late in the big day, so this post is just to say happy Yuri’s Night to everyone who’s been following us and having a great time at our events. Stay tuned later this week for a wrapup post with the appropriate updates and thank-yous, a call for sharing how [...]

With more than two dozen events (pushing us over the 200-party mark!) being added to the Yuri’s Night calendar in the last few days, it’s clear that there are plenty of groups out there that are interested in holding their event on the original anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight. Yuri’s Night Tokyo, one of [...]

Most of our Party Profiles to date have focused on events taking place in the United States, but it’s extremely important to remember that Yuri’s Night is, first and foremost, a global event being celebrated in dozens of countries around the world. In that vein, we’re concluding this year’s Party Profile series with two international [...]

San Francisco has been home to Yuri’s Night’s flagship event since 2007, as the NASA Ames Center brought thousands of guests together from across the Bay Area for technology exhibitions, video game demonstrations, performance dance, live music and much more. Tonight, the California Academy of Sciences takes the reins and joins NASA Ames in mixing [...]

It’s hard to believe, but there are only four days left for Yuri’s Night 2009! Here’s a quick rundown of what’s been going on so far:

Yuri’s Night is the topic of Discovery Space’s most recent “Wide Angle“

Yuri’s Night Goddard slideshow featured on the NASA Goddard Center homepage

Yuri’s Night Hampton Roads also featured on NASA Langley; [...]

So let’s say you’re in the unfortunate position of being hours away from the nearest Yuri’s Night party, or yours has already come and gone–but you still want more. With 171 events officially registered four days into YN09, it’s likely that not many more will be showing up. So aside from throwing your own small [...]

The University of Colorado chapter of SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) is gearing up for another exciting installment of Yuri’s Night Boulder. Last year’s event proved to be a rousing success, gaining worldwide attendance through the magic of uStream, and this year’s multi-day party looks to be even bigger.
Partygoers from “The [...]

(From YN Media Relations Team Member Brice Russ)
Yesterday evening, I made the trip down from Philadelphia  to Washington, DC to help out as a volunteer for Yuri’s Night DC at NASA Goddard, one of our first events for 2009. I’m pleased to say that the 4-hour round trip was more than worth it, as I [...]

April 4th, 2009 marks the official beginning of Yuri’s Night 2009, a weeklong celebration of humanity’s presence in space named after spaceflight pioneer Yuri Gagarin. As of April 3rd, over 170 parties in 41 countries had been registered to occur between April 4th and April 12th.
Events being held during the global celebration include: a blowout [...]

On the eve of Yuri’s Night, we bring you two Party Profiles from two of the most iconic locations in the history of space exploration: Houston, Texas and the Space Coast of Florida.
Yuri’s Night Houston has traditionally been one of the most consistently exciting parties in the YN cornucopia, and this year’s event is sure [...]

“Fueling Dreams That We Are Not Alone”, a song written by Jay Garrigan and performed by Poprocket, has been selected as the official anthem for Yuri’s Night 2009.
Jay Garrigan, a Charlotte, NC-based artist who has opened for such bands as Pavement and the B-52s in his 15 years of professional music, uses drums, guitar, vocals [...]

With barely two days remaining until kickoff, Yuri’s Night has reached the 150-party mark for 2009!
Yuri’s Night now has 151 registered parties in 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica. This is the second straight year that Yuri’s Night has hosted more than 150 events, and the third straight year that more than 120 have [...]

In the past, Yuri’s Night has been featured on CNN, MTV, and the BBC, but in 2009 we’re going somewhere we’ve never gone before–Food Network!
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the NASA Goddard Space Center, Duff Goldman and his staff at Charm City Cakes are baking a Hubble Space Telescope-themed cake for Yuri’s Night [...]

From the desk of Countdown to Yuri’s Night:
On April 11, 2009, ABJ Productions hosts its second Yuri’s Night, an extravaganza of other-worldly magnitude. This year’s event, entitled Countdown to Yuri’s Night, combines visual art, performance, and music to commemorate the first human space flight.
“You don’t need a degree in science to appreciate the beauty and [...]

For our first Party Profile of 2009, Yuri’s Night is featuring a first-time event that nevertheless has the potential to be one of the most exciting parties of the year. The NASA Langley Research Center, located in the Hampton Roads area of southeast Virginia, will be bringing together NASA, academia and the aerospace industry on [...]

 
 
In a little less than a week, the first Yuri’s Night 2009 events will begin. This year, Yuri’s Night will span 8 days, starting April 4th and going through April 12th (and beyond).
Here’s What you can do to help:
Find a Party: There are currently 140 Yuri’s Night parties scheduled around the world. Find the party [...]

With only ten days until the start of Yuri’s Night 2009, parties and events around the world are gearing up for the first weeklong celebration in the Yuri’s Night’s history. Events are taking place from the 4th of April straight through to the 12th, and although there probably won’t be a Yuri’s Night party every [...]

Yuri Gagarin was born on this day in 1934. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
He would have been 75 today.

Richard Garriott is slated to be guest of honor and speaker at Yuri’s Night in Austin, TX. Richard recently flew as a space tourist to the ISS on Soyuz TMA-13. He is also one of the founding members of Space Adventures. Richard will be offering a zero-G flight with him on a ‘vomit comet’ from [...]

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So if you’re going to be in the Washington DC/VA/MD area April 4th - please sign up!

We are quite pleased to announce that Yuri’s Night co-creator, George T. Whitesides is now Senior Advisor at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. Previously Whitesides was the Executive Director of the National Space Society and a Senior Advisor to Virgin Galactic. He is pictured here on a mock up of the Apollo 11 lunar lander [...]

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