Once again, Yuri's Night World Space Party returns to San Francisco. This year, the event was run by Josh Babcock and his band, the "Shimmer Kids Underpop Association." I was their "space advisor:" I contacted my space friends, and got supplies and people for exhibits and videos.

This year's event was deliberately smaller, because we wanted more people actually interested in talking about space travel.

About 200 folks attended, and their enthusiasm was catching on.

Many thanks to Josh, his band, Elton for letting us use his warehouse, The Cubby Creatures, The Chantigs, the, um, Druggles, Adam for emceeing, Mike Smithwick for bringing in the spacesuit and the Soyuz control panel, Jean Marie for manning the booth, and Bill Weitze for doing a little bit of everything.

For more information on the SF event, check out : http://www.underpop.org.

For more information on Yuri's Night, check out : http://www.yurisnight.net.