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Yuri's Night, also known as "World Space Party" is an international observance initiated in the United States in 2001, on the 40th anniversary of Gagarin's flight. Also commemorated on this date is the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1 of Columbia on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first human spaceflight.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] [b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space.
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April 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's historic first flight. [6] Over 100,000 people attended 567 Yuri's Night parties in 75 countries, [10] and the crew of Expedition 27 recorded a Yuri's Night celebratory greeting from the International Space Station. [11] In April 2021, Yuri's Night was held virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 ...
Dates, schedule, how to watch the year's first major. Elizabeth Flores, USA TODAY. February 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM. The Masters, an annual golf tournament held at the esteemed Augusta National Golf ...
The table is listed in chronological order from the date of first flight. The table adheres to a common definition of a space traveller; the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale criterion of achieving an altitude higher than 100 km (62 mi; 330,000 ft), thereby crossing the FAI-defined Kármán line.
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