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b"Yucca's Science\\xa0TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@space_stem\\nAtheopagan TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@atheopagan\\n\\xa0\\nRemember, we welcome comments, questions and suggested topics at thewonderpodcastQs@gmail.com\\n\\xa0\\nS3E13 TRANSCRIPT:----more----\\nYucca: Welcome back to the wonder science-based paganism. I'm your host Yucca. And this week we are talking about probably I'd say my favorite topic. It is almost Yuri's night. So we're going to be doing an episode on. Space exploration, nature, all of that\\nMark: Yeah, very exciting. There's a lot going on right now. And of course, space is a fascinating place that tells us a lot about the nature of the universe and about. The nature of our planet,\\nYucca: and ourselves. Yeah. So, so I think a good place to start would actually be talking about. You are his night is, and, and why it could be a really special thing for pagans.\\nMark: And this is something that we would probably know a lot more about if it wasn't for the cold war between the Soviet union and the United States that lasted from the end of world war two through 1990 because the first human ever to enter space was. he was actually he wasn't rushing. I think he was Georgian.\\nHe was a cosmic, not who went up in the Soviet program and succeed successfully orbited the earth on on the first attempt, which is amazing. The American program tried several times to get someone into orbit and did not succeed for a while. But in 1957, Yuri Gagarin went up into space And orbited the earth and\\nYucca: And safely returned.\\xa0\\nMark: Safely returned to earth and you know, setting setting a reasonably high bar for that kind of enterprise from the very beginning.\\nAnd so Yuri's east night is the 12th of April, which is the anniversary of that orbiting of the earth.\\xa0\\nYucca: Yeah.\\xa0\\nMark: if you're Russian, you know, that. Because you learn this in school. It's a, it's a really big deal.\\nIf you're a scientist, you also probably know it because science, museums and technology, museums, and observatories all very commonly have.\\nOpen houses or parties or other kinds of celebrations on Yuri's night as kind of a celebration of space exploration And all things. Space science.\\nYucca: And it's something that is now is international, right? So it did, you know, did start in Russia. But it's something that people of every nation all over the world who just are appreciative of. Of the exploration and the knowledge and achievements and all things nerdy to find a lot of overlap with you know, with some of the fandoms and that celebration.\\nMark: Right.\\nAnd we should be clear that while the, the exploration of space in the late fifties and early 1960s was pretty much the purview of white men. And that was true of both the Soviet program and the American program. But now you have scientists from all over the world, working on space exploration.\\nYou've got the European space agency sending rockets into space and sending probes, packages of instruments out into space. China has developed its own space program. So, and they're assigned. That have been trained from everywhere in the world that have gone to university become astrophysicists or other pertinent scientists, and then have gotten involved with space programs.\\nSo this really is a humanity scale effort.\\xa0\\nYucca: Right. And I think that, that even when it was. Several of the large superpowers. There has often been a sense of space exploration as being an achievement of humankind. Right? So w when Apollo 11 happened, people all over the world were saying, we did it. Right. There was, of course there was a lot of, you know, American pride around that, but you know, the folks in Spain and in South Africa and all over there's, this is something that is about humans and humans reaching out and exploring.\\nYeah. And I really appreciate you pointing out that it's not just about white dudes now, right? Even being able to explore space as astronauts, but the people on the ground working in the space fields were incred"