50 Years of Human Spaceflight: Yuri’s Night Video Contest

On April 12, 2011, everyone with the least bit of interest in space should be rockin’ the house. It’s the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight, the first human to launch to space. As of this writing there are 109 Yuri’s Night events in 27 countries on 5 continents on 2 worlds (#2 is in Second Life.) Take a look at the Yuri’s Night website to see if there is an event near you. If not, start your own!

There is also a Yuri’s Night 2011 Video Contest, which is an open source competition to engage the public to create tribute videos for this 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight. The best videos will be shared at events around the world and the winners will receive $500. The deadline for submission is April 1, 2011. There will be online voting for the winner.

Find out more info about the contest at: http://videocontest.yurisnight.net/
And get more info about Yuri’s Night: http://yurisnight.net/

One Reply to “50 Years of Human Spaceflight: Yuri’s Night Video Contest”

  1. That one statement by Bill Nye, spoke multitudes to me…”If the opportunity comes up, I’m going!” Me too! Besides, I’m old enough now to where a little radiation exposure during a long duration trip wouldn’t make all that much difference in how much longer I’d live, now would it? Yeah… I’d like to DO something for humanity!~ So lemme know if you need somebody for that Mars trip?

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