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Highlights of World Space Week 2007 include:
- The largest public space event in world history, with celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Space Age which began on October 4, 1957 at
19:12 GMT.
- Scope of the celebration as reported in the event calendar:
- 54 countries reported participation
- Plus several global/regional on-line activities
- Plus 2 activities in space
- 230 unique cities
- 424 unique programs
- 50% of these reporting afterwards
- Total attendance 368,078
- Total media impressions 25,393,000
- Students from nine countries fly together on a zero-gravity airplane on October 6 as part of the World Space Week Youth Inspiration Program.
- Youngsters around the world flew small rockets on the 50th anniversary of the Space Age to "launch" the next 50 years in space.
- Bigelow Aerospace displayed the World Space Week logo on its Genesis 2 spacecraft in orbit and beamed back a photo during World Space Week.
- The UN issued special space stamps in honor of the anniversary and World Space Week. The World Space Week logo appears on a special souvenir sheet.
For details, please visit the 2007 event calendar.
What did you do for World Space Week? Any event, no matter how large or small, is important. To promote your activities during 4-10 October, please add them to the event calendar.
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