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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.
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Hello, World Space Partiers! We have plenty of events to go for Yuri’s Night 2012, so we’ll officially start wrapping this up next week, but we wanted to pass along a few quick updates.
If you’ve ever used Google+, you probably know about the awesomeness of Hangouts, a quick and easy way to video chat with several of your friends at once. In celebration of Yuri’s Night and Global Astronomy Month, Google+ has added a special astronaut “effect” to Hangouts, which lets you rock your astronomical side with a Yuri’s Night-themed space helmet that shows up on your videoscreen while you’re [...]

April 12, 2012 – Today, Yuri’s Night celebrates the 12th year of the World Space Party, 51 years since Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space and 31 years since the first launch of the Space Shuttle.
Space enthusiasts and supporters of human spaceflight will be gathering at over 220 events in 52 countries on all 7 continents.

At the flagship event in Los Angeles, Yuri’s Night co-founder Loretta Whitesides will join hundreds of partiers at the Station (in the W Hollywood) for a night of dancing, costumes, and space-themed swag and cocktails. Representatives from NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and other organizations will [...]