International Day of Human Space Flight
The International Day of Human Space Flight is the
annual celebration, held on 12 April, of the anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin (USSR). It was proclaimed at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 7 April 2011,[1]
a few days before the 50th anniversary of the flight.
Yuri Gagarin crewed the
Vostok 3KA spacecraft, launched on a Vostok-K rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan, USSR.
In the Soviet Union, 12 April was commemorated as
former Soviet states. Yuri's Night, also known as "World Space Party" is an international observance initiated in the United States
in 2001, on the 40th anniversary of Gagarin's flight.
Also commemorated on this date is the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1 of Columbia on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first human spaceflight.
See also
References
- ^ "UN Resolution A/RES/65/271, The International Day of Human Space Flight (12 April)". 7 April 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2016.