Yuri's Night is a worldwide celebration of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight as the first human in space. Here in Atlanta we will be celebrating it at the Fernbank Science Center where we will have space trivia with prizes for the winners, guest speaker A.C. Charania (Commerical President of SpaceWorks), a planetarium show about Mars, observatory (weather permitting), short video clips on...
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Yuri's Night is a worldwide celebration of Yuri Gagarin's historic flight as the first human in space. Here in Atlanta we will be celebrating it at the Fernbank Science Center where we will have space trivia with prizes for the winners, guest speaker A.C. Charania (Commerical President of SpaceWorks), a planetarium show about Mars, observatory (weather permitting), short video clips on space exploration, a demonstration of a new space-based board game called High Frontier,and museum exhibits! Come out and socialize with space enthusiasts and fellow students from universities around Atlanta!
Guest speaker starts at 7pm, planetarium show at 8pm. Planetarium show is $4 adults, $3 children, some societies can see it for free. Visit
http://www.fernbank.edu/planetarium.htm for more info on the planetarium show!
For game enthusiasts, the High Frontier board game!:
http://highfrontier.posterous.com/,
http://highfrontier.posterous.com/high-frontiers-rules
Hosted by The Planetary Society at Georgia Tech:
http://jacketpages.gatech.edu/organizations/view/28249
Sponsored by Northrop Grumman
International Yuri's Night webpage:
www.yurisnight.net