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Courtesy of Space Foundation These days, it seems no one is safe from cancel culture, not even the long-dead heroes of the 1960s space race.
Space News reported that Space Foundation had announced in a now-deleted note that “in light of current world events” it would change the name of its fundraising event from “Yuri’s Night” to “A Celebration of Space: Discover What’s Next.” The annual event is to be held at its April Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. Space Foundation describes itself as “a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983, offering a gateway to education, information and collaboration for space exploration and space-inspired industries that define the global space ecosystem.” Apparently, its information and advocacy ridiculously only extend so far as what’s acceptable in the present-day politically-charged atmosphere. That’s a curious restrictive political stance for a nonprofit to take considering its supposedly apolitical goal to be educational and informational. For the record, according to Space Foundation’s own website (that has yet to be scrubbed), “Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, known all around the globe as Yuri Gagarin, was a Soviet cosmonaut, and the man who achieved what was at the time the biggest milestone in the Space Race: the first human to explore outer space.” Did you notice that? Gagarin was a Soviet citizen, not a Russian. Why then does it appear that Space Foundation decided to cancel him in support of Ukraine (and, in turn, in opposition to the Russian invasion)?
As a pre-teen child in German-occupied Soviet territory, Gagarin “became a saboteur, carrying out small but effective interference work such as mixing chemicals meant for maintenance of the Nazi tanks” and working on a farm until “the Germans were finally routed out of Klushino by The Red Army on Yuri’s tenth birthday, March 9, 1944.” Does that […]
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