Thank you to everyone that made this SOLD OUT event possible!
We will see you next year!
Yuri’s Night is back for the fourth time at the IAC! Join the “World Space Party” in Paris for a night filled with dancing, art, costumes, music, and all things space on Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at Palais Maillot.
Meet our Space Ambassadors, mingle with fellow space enthusiasts, bump into a rocket scientist, look at the sky through a telescope, or grab a photo with an astronaut!
DATE: Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
TIME: 20:00 – 01:00
LOCATION: Palais Maillot Paris
2 Place de la Porte Maillot, Paris, 75017, FR
Scenes from Yuri's Night at IAC in 2019!
For many, many, many, many, many, many years, you have been part of an elite team of bipedal hominids as crew on our beautiful, incredibly complex Spaceship Earth. Flying at over 490,000 MPH around the galactic center, the Earth offers incredible views of our celestial neighbors, provides us with water, energy, and can operate for millennia. In other words: It’s time to celebrate!
Yuri’s Night @ IAC 2022 will be filled with dancing, drinks, art, costumes, and all things space. You might bump into an astronaut, celebrity, rocket scientist, or astrophysicist. DJ’s will be spinning as we celebrate space & the power to bring us all together here on Spaceship Earth. ROCK THE PLANET!
MEET OUR SPACE AMBASSADORS
Dr. Sian Proctor
Astronaut, CEO of SPACE2INSPIRE and the JEDI Space Foundation, first black female spacecraft pilot
Sirisha Bandla
Astronaut and Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations for Virgin Galactic.
Dylan Taylor
Astronaut, Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, and Founder & Chairman of the Board at Space For Humanity
Eric Ingram
Co-Founder of space situational awareness startup SCOUT, Inc, and Ambassador for Mission: AstroAccess
Christina Korp
Christina Korp is an astronaut manager, space advisor, Founder of SPACE For a Better World and the president of Purpose Entertainment
Matt Gohd
CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation, the only FAA-approved provider of commercial parabolic flights in the US.
Camille Elizabeth
aka @TheGalacticGal, aerospace engineer, parabolic flight coach, and science communicator
Mike Mongo
Space+5 Crew, Astronaut Teacher, Author of The Astronaut Instruction Manual, and founder of Mike Mongo's Astronaut Job Fair.
Sydney Hamilton
Space+5 Crew and Aerospace Structures Manager at Boeing. Frst African-American to win the Space & Satellite Professionals International Promise Award.
Joan Melendez-Misner
Space+5 Crew and Integration Engineer at NASA working on space & asteroid planetary defense missions
Trent Tresch
Space+5 Crew and Founding Director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Human Space Exploration;
Diana Al Jbour
Jordanian Ukrainian Aviation engineering student bringing inspiration to underserved communities by establishing women in aviation in Jordan and the Arabic world. She recently was part of the BLinc Analog themed space camp where she was part of the team that built the autonomous mars rover.
Asma Akter
Originally from Bangladesh she is a multilingual science communicator with BLINC inspiring a new generation in steam outreach aviation and aerospace
Space Prize Winner
Winner to Be Announced!
Dipak Srinivasan
Board Member for The Planetary Society along with Civil Space Mission Area Strategic Engagements Lead and the communications systems engineer for the Europa Clipper mission at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL).
MUSICAL GUESTS
DR CHRISPY
Before taking his flight on Blue Origin in 2021, Chris Boshuizen helped co-found both Singularity University and the satellite imagery company Planet. Now he has embraced his musical interests as Dr. Chrispy, astronaut DJ!
Beautiful Machines
A self-described "Cinematic Electronic Synthwave Rock Band", Beautiful Machines' Conrad and Stef are on a nomadic journey across the planet exploring the concept of Singularity for their latest album.
T I N
Tin’s music tells about the ups and downs of a girl who makes her own songs in the sound and the fury, in joyfulness and quakes.
Thank you to our Partners and Sponsors for making this nonprofit event possible!
MEET THE ORGANIZING TEAM
Loretta Whitesides
Co-Founder of Yuri's Night, author, and Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut, along with developing and leading SpaceKind Training.
Tim Bailey
Executive Director of Yuri's Night and The SpaceKind Foundation, Supervisor of Inflight for the Zero Gravity Corporation.
Swetha Kotichintala
Co-founder @ Exobotics, World Space Week National Coordinator (UK), Amateur Mountaineer
Adryon Kozel
Space anthropologist and PhD researcher on the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ETHNO-ISS.
Thomas Hardy
P.R. Consultant , Actor & Art Curator, Founder of Le Commissariat & THC (Thomas Hardy Consulting)
Shiva Lynn Burgos
American conceptual artist, half of the performance-based art collaborative Ned&ShivaProductions, curator of GESTE Paris.
Many thanks to all of the other volunteers, partners, and supporters that have made this event possible!
FAQ
Will there be food?
YES! Food will be available for purchase on site.
What should I wear?
We have a space themed-nightclub vibe that encourages costumes, play/cosplay and self expression! You can wear black pants or galaxy leggings, your favorite Sci-fi costume, or what you would wear to a nightclub on a Saturday night. Coming straight from the IAC to Yuri’s Night? Then you’re already in costume as a space professional!
Is this an all ages event?
Since this is a night club environment we don’t encourage people to bring kids. But just like at Burning Man, some people will. If you would bring your kids to Burning Man, feel free to bring them to Yuri’s Night.
Scenes from previous events
