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Yuri's Night Bay Area, NASA Ames (April 12, 2008)

The following are my photos of the stupendous Yuri's Night (world space party) held on April 12th, 2008 at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. This event is in honor of the first flight into space of a human being: Yuri Gagarin, on April 12th, 1961.

Bruce's Presentation at Yuri's Night

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Thanks Amara for this great series of shots above! Find the MP3 audio of this talk here (pretty noisey but in an etherial way.
Find the powerpoint slides here (16MB). More photos of the pre-event and event below. Thanks to everyone for making this possible!

Bruce in his new "space hippie" getup	CIMG5804.JPG	Where I will be speaking in a few hours	Buzz Aldrin and Bruce Damer
Bruce doing his presentation on "the Case for NEOs"	Constellation mission to a NEO	CIMG5883.JPG	CIMG5884.JPG
John Smart and Vytas Sunspiral	The Hangar stage B	Bruce doing his thing	CIMG5890.JPG
CIMG5891.JPG	CIMG5892.JPG	CIMG5894.JPG	Bruce's audience
Bruce from Discovery Channel "Human Body" show segment	Karl Sims	Karl's evolving creatures, introducing the EvoGrid concept

Other Photos of Yuri's Night

Aerobatics	CIMG5808.JPG	CIMG5809.JPG	Dramatic view of Yuri's Night and aerobatics
See the red streak?	Aerobatic biplane	CIMG5811.JPG	What is that thing!?
Ames Hanger at sunset	Ames hangar as the party lights up	Hangar at night	Looking out from the hangar
And what is that thing!?	Bootprints	Buzz Aldrin (seated) and Pete Worden (on right in CCCP USSR general's uniform)	Buzz Aldrin and Bruce Damer
War of the Worlds thingy	Beware the death ray from the WoW	Zapped!	Alexander van Dijk
What the...?	Taj Mahal on the tarmac?	Water vortex thingy	Wow, it doesnt touch the tube walls!
Welcome sign and sponsors	Weird popcorny paper robot things	CIMG5837.JPG
Al and Sun running the STEAM screen	CIMG5841.JPG	Hippie dancer
Disco ball, at a NASA facility?	Bruce and Phyllis	Gang including Frank Schwartz, Joegh Bullock, Phyllis & freinds
Girls on lit fabric, magikal!	CIMG5858.JPG	CIMG5859.JPG	Touch the moon!
Ah that thingy shoots fire!	CIMG5866.JPG	Main stage bands, Al Sheppard behind	Tale of the Phoenix lit up
More of our gang	Carter Emmart talking to Buzz Aldrin	Carter and Buzz	Al on station
Al on his Grand Outing	Michael Moore's photo of Buzz Aldrin and Bruce