And a Blessed Yuri’s Night to All

It’s Yuri’s Night!

The world, or some small part of it, stops tonight to celebrate our human reaching out into space, maybe eventually to other planets, and, who knows, perhaps someday to the stars.

Yuri’s Night marks that day in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to launch into outer space.

I’ve always thought our urge to leave our planet something particularly interesting about us, no doubt in my heart, directly connected to those humans who first left Africa.

While I don’t harbor major hope for us as a species, this is one aspect to our human condition that makes me think, well, who knows?

Maybe.

Maybe even to the stars…