Yuri's Night Space Coast

This Thursday is Yuri's Night 2018, when the whole world celebrates human spaceflight. April 12 is the date that Yuri Gagarin first orbited the Earth in 1961 and the date the first Space Shuttle launched in 1981.

This is a Friday event; cost associated, see https://www.la.yurisnight.net/spacecoast for details and for a link to buy tickets. Partial description copied below.

Though multiple Central Florida locations are hosting events on Thursday, this is the only Friday Yuri's Night event (hence its own Meetup). Space Apps KSC is not hosting any of the events; just passing on information.

For the Thursday event list, go to https://yurisnight.net/events/#north_america

On April 13, 1985, Space Shuttle Atlantis arrived at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to be prepped for its maiden flight. Over the following 26 years, Atlantis would go on to launch 33 times - deploying satellites & planetary probes Magellan & Galileo, delivering vital components to the International Space Station, & pioneering the Shuttle-Mir era. In July of 2011, NASA's final shuttle mission was flown by Atlantis (STS-135), marking the end of the Shuttle Era. Today, Atlantis is on full display at the historic Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

This year's EPIC Space Coast Yuri's Night party will take place underneath Shuttle Atlantis exactly 33 years to the day since the orbiter arrived at KSC. Come join us on Friday April 13th, 2018, to celebrate this historic spacecraft, the excitement of space exploration, & the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's monumental flight into orbit.

Yuri's Night Space Coast will be filled with dancing, drinks, art, costumes, & all things space. You might bump into an astronaut, celebrity, rocket scientist, or astrophysicist... DJ's will be spinning until 12:30 a.m. & we will be dancing under the Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex celebrating space & the power to bring us all together here on Spaceship Earth. ROCK THE PLANET!