Yuri’s Night Houston

We’ve been busy cooking up some great plans for this year, and have moved the party to The Meridian — a centrally located venue in Houston that will give us plenty of room for exhibits, performers, and celebrating!

For those that are new to Yuri’s Night: it is an annual worldwide celebration of space exploration that commemorates the first manned spaceflight of Yuri Gagarin on April 12th, 1961, and the first launch of the Space Shuttle on April 12th, 1981. There are well over 100 parties that take place around the world every year on or around April 12th to celebrate Yuri’s Night, and Houston (aka Space City) always has one of the premier events. So mark your calendars! This year we are celebrating in a major way on Saturday, April 4th, 2009.

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Starting at 7:45 am:

Annual Charity 5k Fun Run @ Challenger Park — Kids Fun Run 7:45am, Main Fun Run 8:00am (Registration is open now!)

11:00 am - 6pm:

SpaceFest Education Event at Rice Stadium

8:00 pm - 12:00 am

The big celebrati

on at the Meridian!