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

Yuri's Night Bay Area 2008

Buzz Aldrin

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

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

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)

photos by Scott Beale

Scott Beale
Scott Beale

Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Threads and sharing photos on Instagram.