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On December 6, 1999, The United Nations General Assembly declared World Space Week as an annual event celebration to be commemorated between October 4 and 10. The choice of dates was based on recognition of two important dates in space history: the launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957; and the signing of the Outer Space Treaty on October 10, 1967.
Yuri's Night is often called the "World Space Party". [2] The launch of STS-1 , the first Space Shuttle mission, is also honored, as it was launched 20 years to the day after Vostok 1, on April 12, 1981 (although the date of STS-1 is just a coincidence, the launch having had been delayed for two days due to a technical problem).
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World; ... World Space Week; World Year of Physics 2005; Y. Year of the Dolphin
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Vast, a space company based in Long Beach, California, announced in 2023 plans to launch its space station, called Haven-1. The mission will be quickly followed by Vast-1, the first human ...
Space is very big and quite often, very weird. Last week, an image captured by NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter looked just like a bear, and "The Green Comet" reached its closest point to Earth in ...
Cultural astronomy, sometimes called the study of Astronomy in Culture, has been described as investigating "the diversity of ways in which cultures, both ancient and modern, perceive celestial objects and integrate them into their view of the world."
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 . 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.