On April 12th 1961 Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaut, took the spacecraft Vostok into Outer Space. Twenty years later, April 12th 1981, NASA’s first Space Shuttle was launched. Celebrations of these events take many shapes and forms.
Yuri’s Night is very much part of those celebrations and even goes boldly into virtual worlds, Second Life and Kitely are two virtual worlds you should be familiar with.
The Celebrations in Second Life are co-sponsored by the International Spaceflight Museum and the National Space Society.
They are planning a whopping five hours of celebrations starting at 3pm SLT today.
The event launches (sorry couldn’t resist) at the International Spaceflight Museum in Second Life :
- 3:00-4:00 pm – Dance to our “Space Filk & More” audio stream.
- 4:00-5:00 pm – DJ Aristippus spins space-themed tunes and songs of the Space Age.
SLURL : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aspen/200/120/3730
Then the party moves on to The Sagan Planetarium in Second Life.
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