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NASA Knows How to Party

On Friday, NASA opened up a hanger at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View to celebrate the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight in 1961. Dubbed Yuri’s Night World Space Party, it was just one of 126 such events in 35 countries around the world. NASA’s take on the festivities was a tribute to “our global heritage of space exploration,” which it accomplished through techno-rave music, avant-garde dance routines and various displays pulled from last year’s Burning Man.

Nothing says extra-planetary science like a jeep covered in LEGO bricks, a fortune-telling Buddah kinetic light sculpture and solar-powered sunflower robots.

Written by hardedge. Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007, at 10:29 pm. Filed under General. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

2 Comments

kijabedude wrote:

Um, isn’t NASA always complaining about not having enough funding for this or that? Yet they found the cash to put on a swinging shindig celebrating a Russian?

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 6:53 am | Permalink
hardedge wrote:

You’d be surprised at how much partying selling a moon rock will cover.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 7:01 am | Permalink