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Yuri's Night DC 2009 - Out of This World Love Story

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Virtuallinda (in silver) and Alex with the co-creator of Yuri's Night (rocking the gold Princess Leia gold bikini). Alex saw Linda across the room... they met... talked all night...their worlds collided (social media + heliophysics) & they created The Sun Today (www.thesuntoday.org)... wedding date May 27, 2012...honeymoon broadcasting & tweeting the Transit of Venus on Mauna Kea, Hawaii on June 5, 2012...then off to meet Jim Lovell (Apollo 13) on the next trip. THANK YOU YURI'S NIGHT!

Yuri's Night photos, media, and other closeout stuff

Hello folks,

My submission for YN photos are below.

Australia had about 7 parties this year, including a wedding(!).  Will try again next year for Tassie and NZ.
At the 4-Pines Brewery in Manly (Sydney) we had about 50 people, costumes, free Vostoks at the door, and a general good time.  Jaron, myself, and Jay Furby gave a 20-min presentation, a mix of microgravity science, beer history, and some of JayGrey's latest creatives.  

The press kit is up here, which has photos, the presentation video, and some awarded advertisements by Jay.  Go nuts:  http://vostokspacebeer.com/media2/ 

Also, the attached photos are pretty cool, and are rated PG.

Enjoy!
Jason

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Interesting attendees at NASA facility on Yuri's Night

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Most interesting is at Yuri's Night 2010 had kinds of people at a NASA facility you typically don't see at a US federal facility. Yuri's Night at NASA Ames Research Center had various artists, dancers, engineers, scientists interacting with music and displays of space technologies. Here I am in my cosmonaut flight suit. Some of the patches include USSR version of Apollo Soyuz flight in 1975, Shuttle Mir docking in 1995 (patch designed by Robert McCall), USSR patch from fictional movie "2010" of joint mission to Jupiter on the spacecraft Alexei Leonov. More photos at http://mfwright.com/yurigagarin/yurigagarin.html

Russian WWII vet and others with Gagarin posterboard

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Yuri's Night 2011 at Caffe Frascati, www.caffefrascati.com (Cafe Trieste rebranded) in San Jose, CA, was organized by Roger Springall. This party was one of selected sites to premeire the video "First Orbit." After the film, Leonid Segal, a Russian WWII vet, gave a brief speech about Yuri’s flight. In photo holding Gagarin posterboard is Roger Springall, Leonid Segal, Ida Segal, and me (Michael Wright) in my "cosmonaut flight suit."