{"id":8417,"date":"2016-04-10T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T12:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2016-04-11T05:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T05:11:55","slug":"celebrating-space-travel-day-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/celebrating-space-travel-day-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Space Travel Day in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu<\/span><\/strong>—<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0On the occasion of International Day of Human Space Flight, The Brihaspati Bidhya sadan is going to celebrate <\/span>Space Travel Day in Nepal, on 12th<\/sup> of April, in Kathmandu.<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 12, 1961, a 27 year old Russian Soviet Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, accomplished what everyone believed impossible. \u00a0He became the first human to travel in Space while he circled the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. <\/span><\/p>\n

United Nations has declared\u00a0<\/span>April 12<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as “International Day of Human Space Flight” in dedication to the feet achieved by mankind and to encourage space exploration and International Cooperation in use of space for peaceful purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nepal has also been celebrating this day for past few years to share a moment of history alongside with rest of the world, said Sailandra Dhungel, the program coordinator, Brihaspati Vidyasadan School, Kathmandu.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, this year also will be celebrating the event on\u00a0<\/span>12th April<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>with a 2 hours long program with the Slogan “Our Sky, Our Universe”. <\/span><\/p>\n

Details of the program will be a round table discussion with presentations by the following,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Nepal Astronomical Society’s presentation<\/i>, Space and Global Climate- Madan Lal Shrestha, Water – Adapt Nepal, <\/i><\/span>Possibilities of Modern Satellites Communication<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span>– Pravin Raj Joshi<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

Nepal has been enriching the space and science education program along interest of people and organization.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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