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Posted by tourdemars to Entertainment at April 13, 2004 09:16 AM
On the anniversary of the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in 1961, more than 100 students, space addicts and self-described sci-fi fanatics gathered at the top of the Space Needle for a night of celebration in the Soviet cosmonaut's honor. The local event was the brainchild of Graylan Vincent, who graduated from UW with a bachelor's degree in geology and aeronautical and astronautical engineering last quarter. Vincent first heard of the global celebrations of Yuri's Night from a colleague at NASA, where he worked last summer.TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.marsnews.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/427
Dustin and myself both enjoyed our time at this event. Donna Shirley was interested in MarsNews.com and wanted me to send her more info!
Posted by: James Burk at April 13, 2004 11:20 PM
I'm glad you had a good time James, you desrve it! This is a fanatastic website and I hope it is still running when people are walking on Mars. Keep up the excellent work!
Posted by: zach at April 14, 2004 04:02 AM
That goes dido on all of Zach's remarks.
My only wish is that there were more news coming to the Constellation site for the CEV construction details and time line being released. Where is the progress on the crew capsule or plane that both Lockheed and Boeing have drawing designs for. We seem to be in a permanent hold at t minus 40 years and counting.
Also were are the news releases from the Moon to Mars commission for entries made to there web site or are the hearings the only thing that matter. I think we would all like to hear about the many entries. These oh so many thoughts that may aid NASA in the coming years to make the planned vision come to life.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 14, 2004 04:39 AM
I see from the article that the space elevator company Liftport agreed to sponsor the event.
Myself and others had discused the concept of using the space elevator on the moon for relaunching of a reusable lander of course it would be solar powered was my thoughts at the time.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 14, 2004 09:21 AM
I know this is a little of the subject but has anyone else heard of our latest addition to the solar system, Sedna? Its about 3/4 the size of Pluto and has a crazy orbit taking it as close as 76 AU's to 1,000 AU's (an A.U. stans for Astronomical Unit and is equal to the distantance from Earth to the Sun). In this article:
http://space.com/scienceastronomy/hubble_sedna_040414.html
They are wondering what made its orbit so eliptical. The main theory seems to be that an object between 1 and several Earth masses has disturbed its orbit. This makes me wonder again about the Nemesis Theory which states that our Sun might have an unseen companion. Very intresting stuff!
Posted by: zach at April 14, 2004 10:55 AM
Just another reason for why Hubble needs to have a final mission of repairs done whether by shuttle or by some other craft. I do not care what will be used, we need to just do it instead of wining about safety of shuttle use.
Oh yes, Sedna is an interesting peice of astronomy but so are many other places that are a lot closure to us. But we are still unable to send men there yet.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at April 14, 2004 11:41 AM