Join us in celebrating Yuri’s Night World Space Party, a global event that commemorates the accomplishments of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth. Gagarin attended the First Chkalov Air Force Pilot’s School, named after Valery Chkalov. Chkalov landed the world’s first transpolar flight at Pearson Field in 1937.
At Yuri’s Night, there will be family-friendly activities, including the construction and launching of two-liter pressure bottle rockets. An information booth from the Oregon L5 Society (a division of the National Space Exploration Society) will discuss space exploration. Dr. Cameron Smith will be present with his home-built high altitude pressure suit and his high altitude helium balloon, from which he intends to test his pressure suit later this year. Weather permitting, the evening will finish with an outdoor star gazing tour led by a national park ranger who is a certified star guide.
Join us in celebrating Yuri’s Night World Space Party, a global event that commemorates the accomplishments of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth. Gagarin attended the First Chkalov Air Force Pilot’s School, named after Valery Chkalov. Chkalov landed the world’s first transpolar flight at Pearson Field in 1937.
At Yuri’s Night, there will be family-friendly activities, including the construction and launching of two-liter pressure bottle rockets. An information booth from the Oregon L5 Society (a division of the National Space Exploration Society) will discuss space exploration. Dr. Cameron Smith will be present with his home-built high altitude pressure suit and his high altitude helium balloon, from which he intends to test his pressure suit later this year. Weather permitting, the evening will finish with an outdoor star gazing tour led by a national park ranger who is a certified star guide.
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