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The National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference, one of the largest space enthusiast conferences of the year, is taking place this weekend in Washington, DC! Yuri’s Night will be there alongside John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Bolden, Ben Bova, and other space legends; check out the event list below to see where you can catch up with YN!
Yuri’s Night Meetup with International Space University – If you’ve organized, helped with, or just attended a Yuri’s Night event, we’d like you to join us for a get-together this Thursday evening! YN will be meeting up with alumni and faculty from [...]

This weekend promises to be an exciting one for fans of space. At 4:55 AM EDT this Saturday, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first commercial capsule to dock with the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And on Sunday, the western half of North America will witness an annular solar eclipse.
On Saturday morning, Quest for Stars, in partnership with Yuri’s Night and Columbus to Space, is launching a weather balloon to the edge of space. Quest for Stars, a nonprofit organization that works with schools, colleges, and communities to promote STEM education, will be documenting [...]

Now that Yuri’s Night 2012 has wrapped up around the world, we have mentioned some of the most extreme Yuri’s Night parties (like the party at the South Pole) and all of the fabulous news coverage of Yuri’s Night this year – and now we want to celebrate the final count of parties for 2012. We were thrilled when we finally got a party in Africa (our 7th continent for 2012) and were excited again when we bested the number of worldwide parties in 2010 (222 parties).
2012 is now officially the second-largest Yuri’s Night ever. Congrats to Van Nuys, CA [...]

2012 was another great year for Yuri’s Night headlines! Read on for a summary of some of the top YN12 mentions in the news:
Any discussion of Yuri’s Night in the news has to start with two fantastic stories. Alan Boyle, of MSNBC.com’s Cosmic Log, posted a great article about Yuri’s Night before the first parties even started, highlighting Yuri’s Night’s virtual events and interviewing YN Director of Marketing Veronica Ann Zabala-Aliberto. And over at The Huffington Post, Zoe P. Strassfield wrote a glowing Yuri’s Night review, complete with how-to tips and a comprehensive playlist of space-themed music to play at [...]

Happy Yuri’s Night! Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath a bit after last weekend’s festivities, we’d like to start taking a look at some of the most rocking moments and achievements from this year’s Yuri’s Night. It’s important to note, though that Yuri’s Night isn’t over yet! There are still parties to be held in cities as diverse as New York City, Peshawar, Pakistan, and Ica, Peru, we still have contest winners to announce, and we won’t be officially finishing up YN12 until this year’s ISDC–so stay tuned for the latest on these and other stories.
First, [...]