NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Yuri's Night at Ames

On April 13 - April 14, 2007, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., hosted a major celebration of space exploration commemorating humankind’s first flight into space by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Yuri’s Night was an international celebration of human space achievement designed to raise awareness and support for space exploration.