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Ron Garan Wins Spirit of Yuri’s Night Award

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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Ron Garan Receives 2011 Spirit of Yuri’s Night Award

“NASA Astronaut Ron Garan was officially presented with the 2011 Spirit of Yuri’s Night Award on Wednesday, March 14, 2012, after a day of special events welcoming him back to his childhood home of Yonkers, NY. “This is a great honor, and especially personal for me since I traveled to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft dubbed “Gagarin”, launched from the same launch pad that Yuri Gagarin launched from more than 50 years ago,” said Garan.”

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