Commemorating the first human in space
Yet another of those great accomplishments for which I never aspired is that of Astronaut. I just had too many disqualifying characteristics to give the matter much thought and so I would watch with great interest early in the US space program ...But my interest has waned with the revelations of NASA lying, doctoring photographs, and providing Never A Straight Answer.
Indeed, when the late Sally Ride whined about how badly NASA needed money I was all aboard until their MANY revelations of malfeasance hit me. It is my present opinion that the world can do without NASA and every gd liar working there.
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There are several tiers of commemoration: Cosmonautics Day, International Day of Human Space Flight, and Yuri's Night.
You can say what you like about the soviet union and those remnants which persist to this day, their committment to space flight has eclipsed that of the United States times over.
Cosmonautics Day which is celebrated primarily in Russia and other former USSR states observing that first manned space flight made on 12 April 1961 by the 27-year-old Russian Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He circled the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
International Day of Human Space Flight is a cheapshot copycat UN version of the same thing in an attempt to have the public believe they are not out to kill us all in the name of Agenda 2030 sustainability. F*ck the UN.
April 12 was also the date of the first Space Shuttle launch, STS-1 of Columbia in 1981 also in commemoration of this date.
Yuri's Night is an international celebration held every April 12 which likewise commemorates flight of Vostok 1 in 1961. Yuri's Night has been celebrated with 567+ events in 75 countries on seven continents and as such is often called the "World Space Party".