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Yuri’s Night – 50th Anniversary of Human Space Flight!
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Every year on April 12 we celebrate Yuri’s Night, in honor of the first human space flight by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. But this year is special—it’s the big Five-O of anniversaries!
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On Spacevidcast there will be a Live Global webcast tonight of the Yuri’s Night celebrations (starting at midnight UTC—that’s 8 p.m. Eastern Time and 5 p.m. Pacific Time.)
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Read about Yuri’s flight and Yuri’s Night here.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person to see Earth from space. He said:
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“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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For more on Yuri’s Night, check out last year’s post.
