SPACE CHENNAI - GAM 2020 - YURI’S NIGHT CELEBRATION REPORT

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May 07

2020

by SPACE Chennai

GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH – YURI’S NIGHT CELEBRATION REPORT

City: Chennai

Date: 12/04/2020

Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Appreciating the human efforts for the journey to space.
• Highlighting the human’s first successful attempt to space travel.
• Celebrating Cosmonaut’s Day 2020 – Yuri’s Night.
• Honouring Yuri Gagarin – First man to go to space.

DESCRIPTION:

April 12, 1961 forever changed our world. Honouring the first manned flight into space was the result of universal scientific progress, the tremendous dedication of Soviet scientists, designers, the great cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin forever for the benefit of realizing this long-held dream of mankind - space exploration.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Yuri Gagarin – First Man to go to space

CONCLUSION:

                       The participants were excited about the humans attempts to space and how challenging the space travel could be and celebrated this day as Yuri’s Night for the honouring the success of Cosmonauts for space travel.