Yuri’s Night: A Celebration of Space Exploration

• TIME: 6:30pm
  PLACE:CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave between 34th and 35th St
  COST:FREE, but register in advance. To register, call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu
• SUMMARY:”In 1961 Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, became the first human being to leave Earth’s atmosphere. On April 12, revelers on all seven continents celebrate the anniversary of his unprecedented voyage as well as the launch of the first Space Shuttle exactly 20 years later.”