<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class="">"There are no borders in space between us". That’s what Roscosmos’ Mikhail Kornienko and NASA’s Scott Kelly tell the world as they are about to start their year-long mission on the International Space Station — in preparation for a future Mars mission. There are indeed no borders in space, and space exploration is a challenge that humanity as a whole took up 54 years ago, with the first manned flights by Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard in 1961.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">To commemorate Gagarin’s pioneering achievement, every April people across the world get together for <a href="https://yurisnight.net/" target="_blank" class="">Yuri’s Night</a>, a fun and inspiring celebration of major space exploration milestones. And this year, which also marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, the <a href="https://ksj.mit.edu/" target="_blank" class="">Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT</a> is hosting its very first <b class="">Yuri’s Night</b>!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Planned for <span class="" tabindex="0">April 11</span> (a <span class="" tabindex="0">Saturday</span>), our celebration of humanity’s past and future achievements in space will include a space–themed team quiz, a propaganda poster contest, a guest talk by a NYU neuroscientist and a dance party. Expect a lot of international fun and Russians teaching you to say Gagarin’s famous ПОЕХАЛИ.</div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">More information about the party <a href="https://ksj.mit.edu/article/2015/02/ksj-yuris-night/" target="_blank" class="">https://ksj.mit.edu/article/2015/02/ksj-yuris-night/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">RSVP at <a href="https://eventbrite.com/event/15884719624/" target="_blank" class="">https://eventbrite.com/event/15884719624/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><b class="">Poyekhali!</b></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><img class=" Apple-web-attachment-container" src="cid:ii_14c51e17a09a1e0e" alt="Встроенное изображение 1" tabindex="0"></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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