Space Exploration And STEM Take Center Stage At Yuri’s Night

It’s time for the other kind of Hollywood stargazing. Yuri’s Night International–April 12, the date Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space–has become a worldwide celebration of human space flight, cooperation, and space science education. Co-founded in 2000 by astrobiologist Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides and Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, it’s grown some 600 science-themed events in […]