• first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin, who flew the Vostok 1 spaceship on April 12, 1961. In 2011, Yuri's Night was celebrated at over 567 events...
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    Executive Director of the National Space Society. He is the co-creator of Yuri's Night, alongside his wife Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides. In 2007, Whitesides was...
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    airman later joined the school to teach maths and science, Yuri's favourite subjects. Yuri was also part of a group of children that built model aeroplanes...
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    Cosmonautics Day (category Yuri Gagarin)
    song with them getting assigned for orbital deployments. Since 2001, Yuri's Night, also known as the "World's Space party", is held every 12 April worldwide...
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    Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides is an American public speaker, co-creator of Yuri's Night, and an author on space exploration. She accumulated over five hours...
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    option was available in the party carried out during the 2010 Yuri's Night. Since Yuri Gagarin is a kind of mascot of the project, the people in charge...
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  • Yuri's Day (film), a 2008 Russian drama film Saint George's Day Yuri's Night This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Yuri's...
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    International Day of Human Space Flight (category Monuments and memorials to Yuri Gagarin)
    1963, and is still observed in Russia and some former Soviet states. Yuri's Night, also known as "World Space Party" is an international observance initiated...
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    something of a "character." For instance, he supported and presided over "Yuri's Night Bay Area", held at NASA Ames Research Center in 2007. He is also known...
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  • Commemoration of first human in space by Yuri Gagarin: Cosmonautics Day (Russia) International Day of Human Space Flight Yuri's Night (International observance) Halifax...
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