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Spotlight: "Yuri's Night" Space Coast Celebration

Image from Yuri's Night 2018 at Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: Marcus Cote
Image from Yuri's Night 2018 at Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: Marcus Cote

This weekend, a high-spirited yet cerebral celebration of human space endeavors touches down at Kennedy Space Center. It’s called “Yuri’s Night,” and it takes place in the shadow of the space shuttle Atlantis. Literally. There will be dancing, directly underneath the shuttle displayed at KSC.

The annual event’s co-engineer Mike Mongo tells 90.7's Nicole Darden Creston about Yuri's Night.

Click the Play Audio button to hear their conversation.

Find more information on Yuri's Night at the event's website.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.