Yuri's Night
Yuri's Night ( German "Juris Night") is the name established by the then NASA employee George Whitesides for a u. a. by him to life caused series of events as a day of action every year around April 12 around the world on all continents, human space flight celebrated as achievement of civilization. The name is reminiscent of Yuri Gagarin , the first man in space.
Explicit reason for the choice of this date is the coincidence of dates of Columbia - the first flight in 1981 and the Vostok -Erstfluges 1961, both held on April 12 each. The number of officially registered celebrations of this kind began in 2001 with 64 and has been over 200 since 2009. In 2004, for example, people celebrated in 34 countries and in numerous places, including a. in Los Angeles , Stockholm , Antarctica , Tel Aviv , Tokyo and on the International Space Station (ISS).
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The intention of Yuri's Night is to promote public interest in space exploration and to attract new candidates for this research within the next generation. The event idea is also based on artistic forms of expression inspired by space and ultimately leads to a worldwide network of simultaneous events with young people. A wide variety of cultural events, in particular from the fields of music, dance, fashion and art, also take place at global events.
initiative
The initiators of "Yuri's Night" include George T. Whitesides and Loretta Hidalgo . Whitesides was Executive Director at NASA from 2004 to 2008, then Chief of Staff for Administrator Charles Bolden . Today Whitesides is the CEO of Virgin Galactic . The Russian side was not involved in the initiative.
Yuri's Night has had its own 501 (c) 3 society since 2010 , after the organizational structures in the UN-supported Space Generation Advisory Council had grown.
useful information
In contrast to the assumption that has been made at times that the Yuri's Night idea has something to do with the Russian " Cosmonaut Day " proclaimed for the same date , it is based on a separate / international idea: the collapse of the first human flight into space (12 April 1961) and the first flight of an American space shuttle exactly 20 years later (April 12, 1981). This simultaneity was used by the American side as an opportunity to call for a worldwide celebration that includes all space travel nations and all space travel enthusiasts across borders, in order to jointly honor the world-historical achievement of manned space flight - without ostensible reputation of a single nation.
The 2004 event in Los Angeles was attended by over 100 prominent space researchers, including writer Ray Bradbury , space tourist Dennis Tito and Ansari X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis . Especially in the USA Yuri's Night a big event, which is at the Ames Research Center of NASA attracted already 12,000 visitors in 2010, as Spiegel Online reported. The progress made to date was presented at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2013 in Beijing.
statistics
International distribution as evidence for the supra-regional perception of the series of events from 2001 to today:
| year | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Events | 64 | 120 | 78 | 77 | 62 | 91 | 127 | 198 | 217 | 222 | 567 | 236 | 357 | 214 | 223 | 273 | 199 |
| in countrys | 28 | 45 | 36 | 34 | 21st | 33 | 36 | 51 | 47 | 67 | 75 | 52 | 57 | 48 | 49 | 62 | 50 |
International awareness
Organizations involved in hosting Yuri's Night events include: a. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space .
The Disney Studios have discussed "Yuri's Night".
The Guardian places Yuri's Night in a row with other scientific action days.
In 2012 there was a report on Yuri's Night on MSNBC
In 2014, Wired wrote about the celebration in Los Angeles.
In the past few years, astronauts have sent “Yuri's Night” -related greetings live from the ISS to the world's population. B .:
- 2008: Peggy Whitson
- 2011: Catherine Coleman u. a .; here all six crew members show themselves in the Yuri's Night T-shirt with the associated logo.
- 2013: Chris Hadfield
- 2015: Samantha Cristoforetti
Yuri's Night in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
An action day was held in Bremen in 2015, as was an event in 2016 at the Osterburg in Weida in Thuringia . The annual events in Germany are supported by various companies and organizations, including DLR and ESA .
In Austria, a Yuri's Night has been taking place in Vienna for years , supported by the Austrian Space Forum .
In Switzerland, Yuri's Night takes place in different locations, in 2017 in Baden .
Others
The Spirit of Yuri's Night Award, presented for the first time by the Yuri's Night Executive Team in 2010, has so far been given to these public figures:
- 2010: Richard Garriott
- 2011: Ronald John Garan
- 2012: Pete Worden
- 2013: Chris Austin Hadfield
- 2014: Bill Nye
- 2015: Alan Stern
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yuri's Night: Linking the World Together with an International Space Celebration (PDF Download Available). ResearchGate website. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
- ^ NASA - George T. Whitesides, NASA's Chief of Staff. NASA website. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Our Team - Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic website. Retrieved December 28, 2016
- ↑ 50 years of manned space travel: Dance the Gagarin! - MIRROR ONLINE. SPIEGEL ONLINE website of April 11, 2011. Accessed December 26, 2016
- ↑ No Borders - Bridging Cultures Through Yuri's Night Youtube-Video of the presentation at the IAC 2013 (accessed on January 11, 2014, CC-BY license )
- ^ Yuri's Night Event Data - Yuri's Night. Yuri's Night Global Executive Team website. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Miles From Tomorrow | Yuri's Night | Disney Junior UK - YouTube. Youtube video Disney "Miles From Tomorrow". Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ Darwin's Day to Yuri's Night: some science dates to remember. In: The Guardian. September 20, 2014, accessed January 17, 2015 .
- ↑ cosmic log: Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri's Night ( Memento from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website from msnbc.com. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Making Space Cool Again | WIRED. Wired website. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ Yuri's Night 2008: Greeting from the ISS - YouTube. Youtube video "Yuri's Night 2008: Greeting from the ISS". Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Yuri's Night 2011 International Space Station Crew: 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight - YouTube. Youtube video of Expedition 27 of the ISS. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Chris Hadfield Wishes the World a Happy Yuri's Night - YouTube. Youtube-Video: Chris Hadfield wishes the world a Happy Yuri's Night. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Yuri's Night Greetings from Samantha Cristoforetti - YouTube. Youtube video: Yuri's Night greetings from Samantha Cristoforetti. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ In Bremen fans celebrate the first man in space - Bremen city report - WESER-KURIER. Website of the Weser Courier . Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ Osterburg Weida celebrates mankind's departure into space - Gera | OTZ. Website of the Ostthüringer Zeitung. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ Yuri's Night 2011: 50 Years of Manned Space Travel »Diaries of Science» SciLogs - Science Blogs. Spektrum.de website . Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ First space flight 50 years ago | Gagarin and the race for space - foreign news - Bild.de. Web site Bild.de . Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ Longing for endless expanses «DiePresse.com. Website of DiePresse.com . Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ↑ 100 astronauts come to Austria in October - futurezone.at. Futurezone website . Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ↑ Yuri's Night Switzerland 2017
- ^ Spirit of Yuri's Night Award - Yuri & 's Night. Website of the Yuri's Night Executive Team. Retrieved December 29, 2016.