Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008, A World Space Party at NASA

by Scott Beale on April 12, 2008 · 14 comments

PHOTOS

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Buzz Aldrin

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Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Zoë Keating

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Mutopia by Flaming Lotus Girls

Instructables

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Stewart Brand

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Amon Tobin

VIDEO

Here are my photos and video from Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008, a world space party at NASA Ames Research Center that was a celebration of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person to orbit the earth (see previous post).

The highlights of Yuri’s Night for me was meeting Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronaut who was the 2nd person to set foot the moon.

More coverage:

- “NASA Ames’ director talks Yuri’s Night, Google, and more” (CNET’s Geek Gestalt, Daniel Terdiman)
- “A Self-Guided Tour at NASA Ames Research Center” (Telstar Logistics)

UPDATE: Here’s Current’s coverage of Yuri’s Night Bay Area.

photo by Scott Beale

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{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Dante Hippert April 13, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Yeah… ! This crowd of people is appearing to be the first space cowboys without any access to space itself.

Geeks to the power !

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2 watson April 13, 2008 at 11:28 pm

fabulous photos scott!

please add to the Flickr pool for the event: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ynba2008/

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3 Scott Beale April 13, 2008 at 11:36 pm

Watson – I’ve added them to the pool.

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4 Jason Cranford Teague April 14, 2008 at 6:27 pm

Could you post these and any other photos you have of the vent on the Yuri’s Night Web site? Thanks.

http://www.yurisnight.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=8984

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5 Scott Beale April 14, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Jason – What you might consider doing is linking to all of the coverage of each regional Yuri’s Night. That way visitors will be able to see the full write-ups with photos and/or video.

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6 Daniel Stoilov April 15, 2008 at 4:39 pm

Hi Scott, These shots look fantastic. I just wonder is it post-processing, great camera kit or great skills. Could you be so kind to share your equipment and just some short description on how you took those. I will be sincerely grateful. Thanks.

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7 Scott Beale April 15, 2008 at 5:09 pm

Daniel – My EXIF data is published with my Flickr photos, so that’s will give you some info for each photo. Some day I’ll do a proper write-up on what equipment I use.

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