World Party to Celebrate Space Travel

World Party to Celebrate Space Travel

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – This Friday (April 12), Earthlings will be holding a solar system block party in celebration of Yuri Gagrin – the first human to go into space back in 1961. The 2nd Annual World Space Party “Yuri’s Night” is made up of over 100 parties in cities around the world throughout the evening, ranging from a symbolic toast at a research station at the South Pole to a big bash in Los Angeles. This year, there will even be a special greeting recorded from cosmonauts on the international space station. Yuri’s Night co-creator George Whitesides says interest in NASA may be waning but interest in the party has grown since last year, which he thinks is because people want to get more actively involved in space.

Tue 04-09-02