” Yuri’s Night” is April 12.\u00a0 A musical tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, created for theatrical performance at\u00a0 Ithaca\u2019s Science Cabaret.\u00a0\u00a0 Soundtrack includes Paul Robeson singing the Russia National Anthem in Moscow in 1949.<\/p>\n
(from Wikipedia) Yuri’s Night<\/strong> is an international celebration held on April 12 every year to commemorate space exploration milestones.\u00a0\u00a0 The event is named for the first human to launch into space, Yuri Gagarin<\/a>, who flew the Vostok 1<\/a> spaceship on April 12, 1961. The launch of STS-1<\/a>, the first Space Shuttle<\/a> mission, is also honored, as it was launched 20 years to the day of Vostok 1 on April 12, 1981. In 2013, Yuri’s Night was celebrated at over 350 events in 57 countries.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A musical tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, created for theatrical performance on Yuri’s night, April 12, at Ithaca\u2019s Science Cabaret. The event included presentations from space scientists in a cabaret setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-work-weve-done"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electronranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}