Tonight , across the world , people will be going to space - theme parties to celebrate Yuri ’s Night , an annual event observe Yuri Gagarin – the first person to survive space flying . Here is a heading of fine art celebrating his dandy risky venture .
50 years ago today , Yuri orbit the Earth . He returned home to his native Soviet Union as an international hero , and spent the next 8 years touring the world , touting the USSR ’s gravid Cosmonaut program . Though he decease in a tragic plane clang in 1969 , thousands of artists think of him in art dedicate to his flight – and humans ’s quest to one day journey far into space and find fresh homes among the star . Here we ’ve call for some gorgeous model of art celebrating Yuri ’s Night – and Yuri himself .
Want to discover a Yuri ’s Night solemnization in your area ? They ’re encounter in cities from Bogotá , Columbia , to Mountain View , California . Checkthe party list on the official Yuri ’s Night internet site .
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Acommemorative stampcelebrating Yuri ’s flight , from
Sculpture at Yuri ’s Night party . picture by Declan McCullagh .
Soviet architecture pep up by a rocket . photograph by Frederic Chaubin . See more of Chaubin ’s photography of Soviet computer architecture .
Russia ’s “ Park of Memory , ” have what calculate like a crashed space capsule . pic by Frederic Chaubin . See more of Chaubin ’s photography of Soviet architecture .
Light carving from Yuri ’s Night party , Silicon Valley . Photo byJason Unbound .
A memorial to Yuri in Russia . Photo bySlavophile .
Pablo Picasso paint this for Yuri after his flight in 1961 .
Yuri mailing-card , from the 1960s
1960s Russian posting for Yuri
By Robert Lindsay . See more from the expo , calledCountdown to Yuri ’s Night .
“ The Raygun Gothic Rocketship , ” a statue at Yuri ’s Night Bay Area ( now permanently put in in San Francisco ) . viaNASA
Russian statue remember Yuri . Photo by Yuriy Lapitskiy .
By Todd Gardner . See more from the expo , calledCountdown to Yuri ’s Night .
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