'Yuri's Night' space parties in L.A. Sat April 6th, then DC, Seattle, Colorado, Space Coast April 12-13, 2019

The annual space party 'Yuri's Night' happens in L.A. on Saturday April 6th, and then in a bunch more cities the following weekend: Washington, DC, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Kennedy Space Center on the Florida Space Coast, April 12-13, 2019.

This year, JPL is bringing the amazing JPL Europa Lander model (shown here) for Los Angeles Yuri's Night attendees to marvel at and imagine what it would be like out in orbit around Jupiter.

How great is that?

Plus space celebs and science fiction stars, astronauts, science personalities, and fellow fans of spaceflight.

LA.YURISNIGHT.NET has tickets, and they start at $75 and include a ton of fabulousness.

Here's what's going down, in celebration of the first human being who managed to go up into space:

L.A. Sat April 6: Virgin Galactic's 1st pilot astronaut Mark Stucky, Bill Nye and 6 time shuttle astronaut Story Musgrave kick off an epic night of VR, DJs and fun under Space Shuttle Endeavour. (Yuri's Night founder Loretta Whitesides will be there)

Seattle Fri April 12: The Museum of Flight welcomes the Apollo 11 Command Module to Seattle with a massive grand opening party in partnership with Noise Complaint. (Yuri's Night founder Loretta Whitesides will also be there)

Washington DC Fri April 12: The Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum will again be hosting a mind-blowing Yuri's Night in partnership with Brightest Young Things.

Kennedy Space Center Sat April 13: Private space explorer, 2nd gen astronaut and legendary video game designer Richard Garriott will talk about his time on ISS followed by DJ dance party under Space Shuttle Atlantis. Read the rest