Yuri's Night World Space Party 2003 - 04.12.03

kulakovich writes "This Saturday is the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's orbit of Earth. The site yurisnight.net is organizing the festivities. There are currently 60+ parties scheduled around the world in 34 countries to celebrate, and the event has been featured in the March WIRED April Events Calendar. I heard about it through the Extropians list . Isn't it nice for our species to have something to celebrate that is positive for a change?"

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For the math challenged:

[Strange Ranger]

This Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's 1961 orbit of Earth.

Struck me as odd that that was left out. An anniversary is the celebration of a specific date is it not?

This is cool. If all these people around the world can celebrate a 42 year old achievement, maybe we will have another amazing space accomplishment or 2 to celebrate in the near future. This kind of thing shows there is very significant worldwide support for space exploration. Go humanity go!