Bionic Buzz® got to cover Yuri’s Night LA at the CA Science Center. It is a global celebration of humanity’s achievements in space, with hundreds of parties and events held around the world each April. Its to commemoration of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961, and the inaugural launch of the first Space Shuttle on April 12, 1981. This epic night filled with dancing, drinks, art, costumes, VR, learning station, speakers and all things space. Check out our interviews below from the event. More coming soon along with photos. By @SteveSievers
Our interview with Bill Nye the Science Guy. He was a was the special guest speaker at the event. We got find out where his passion for science came from as a child.
Here is Bill Nye the Science Guy speech in front of the crowd and Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Our interview with Christopher Huie Spence. He is one of the speakers/ambassadors of the event along with being a loads engineer at Virgin Galactic/The Spaceship Company. You can follow all the exciting things at https://www.virgingalactic.com/
Our interview with Laurent Scallie founder & CEO of Red Pill VR. They develop the best-of-class technologies to build the world’s most advanced platform for music content made for, and by, Virtual Reality. More info visit: http://redpillvr.com/
Our interview with Jessie Christiansen NASA Staff Scientist & Science curator at NASA Exoplanet Archive. She got to tell us about the amazing things they are doing at iPac.
Our interview with Varoujan Gorjian who is a research astronomer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and works with iPac, Spitzer, Trappist and Exoplanets.
This epic night featured star cars out front, photo ops, speeches, art work, dance party, drinks, VR experiences, space petting zoo and more. Check out photos below. This year was the first time it sold out. So if you want to attend next year, make sure to buy tickets right away.
