Yuri's night @EPFL
Event details
| Date | 12.04.2016 |
| Hour | 17:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker |
Claude Nicollier Simon Dandavino Anton Selyukov |
| Location | |
| Category | Celebrations |
Yuri's night is a global celebration of humanity's achievements in space, with hundreds of parties and events held around the world each April in commemoration of the first human to venture into space, Yuri Gagarin, who flew on the first Spacecraft Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
Come and celebrate with us !
Free and open to any space enthusiast.
For organisational purposes we kindly ask you to register here
Program of the night
"Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty, not destroy it!"
— Yuri Gagarin, 1st human in space.
Come and celebrate with us !
Free and open to any space enthusiast.
For organisational purposes we kindly ask you to register here
Program of the night
- "Gagarin: Untold Story of the First Man in Space" , Movie by RT channel - 30'
- The rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin, Story of Sergei Korolev by Anton Selyukov, EPFL - 20'
- CleanSpace One: How EPFL is responding to the problem of space debris by Simon Dandavino, eSpace - 20'
- Space Travel : a user's guide by ESA Astronaut Claude Nicollier - 20'
- Surpise games
- Get-together and party
"Circling the Earth in my orbital spaceship I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty, not destroy it!"
— Yuri Gagarin, 1st human in space.
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required