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Thursday 7 April 2011

April, 12th YURI'S NIGHT



"Yuri's Night" is a celebration of two events: (1) the first successful launch of a human in space (Yuri Gagarin) on April 12, 1961, and (2) the first launch of a U.S. space shuttle on April 12, 1981. It is a celebration of all past, present, and future human efforts in space exploration.

Further information on Yuri's night-Yuri's night blog

Yuri Gagarin on Wikipedia

A video from the Spanish TV (RTVE) about the first spaceflights.

2 comments:

Miren said...

Hola soy Miren, gracias de nuevo por meterme en este mundo ¡ES FASCINANTE! Os sigo

MMAR CASTON said...

Thanks, Miren. We follow you, too.