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World Space Party at NASA Ames to celebrate anniversary of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight on April 12, 1961

Location: Mountain View, California

Date: April 2007

Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds

ID Number: #12622132


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Hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield, usually a staid government installation, but lit up this evening for Yuri's Night World Space Party

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One of three hangars at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, pressed into service for Yuri's Night and World Space Party

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Multimedia artist Peter Foucault's Robot Drawing Machine #8, with two line-drawing robots that respond to applause, on display at Yuri's Night space party

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NASA's Quiet Short Haul Research Aircraft, QSRA, built from C-8 Buffalo and used to research short-takeoff aircraft design, on display at Yuri's Night party

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World Space Party 2007, a science and dance combination, to celebrate anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight on April 12, 1961

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A global earthquake early warning system, which measures changes in rock conductivity, a joint venture of NASA Ames and QuakeFinder, at Yuri's Night

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Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames, to celebrate Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight, looks eerily similar to annual Burning Man festival

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NASA's C-141 jet was named after astronomer Gerard Kuiper and outfitted with a 36-inch telescope. It operated until 1995 and is now decommissioned.

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Windmill on display at Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames looks like a kaleidoscope when spinning

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Light bulb art project, with bicycles and color-shifting bulbs, on display at Yuri's Night World Space Party at NASA Ames

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World Space Party at NASA Ames to celebrate anniversary of Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin's historic orbital flight on April 12, 1961