| Event ID: | 9540 |
| Contact Name: | Guy Pignolet |
| Contact Email: | guy.pignolet@science-sainte-rose.net |
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| Organization: | Reunion Island Space Initiative |
| Event Web Site: | http://7lameslamer.net/world-space-week-la-porte-des-1560.html |
| Dates: | 4th October 2015 to 9th October 2015 |
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| Type: | Public |
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| Country: | Reunion |
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| City: | Saint Denis |
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| Location: | Rond Point Vladimir Syromiatnikov |
| Event Name: | Porte des Mondes - Gate of the Worlds |
| Event Description: | Porte des Mondes - Gate of the Words - is a monument to honor the memory of Vladimir Syromiatnikov, one of the makers of Sputnik-1 in 1957, and the man who helped children of Saint Denis (Reunion) and Naltchick (Russia) make the first high-school satellite in the world in 1997 with Sputnik-40-Years, a functional scale model of the first Sputnik. The monument is an evocation of the engineering masterpiece of Vladimir Syromiatnikov, the APAS docking system for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Every night of the 2015 World Space Week, Guy Pignolet was sitting under the moument from 21:00 till 22:30 to entertain friends and passers-by about the history of the monument, as well as open conversation about space activities in Reunion Island and in the World.space activities, |
| Promotional Image: | No Image. |
| Report on the Results: | In addition to the encounters at the Gate of the Worlds monument, the event was widely presented on the regional social networks. A 30-minutes talk show took place on Reunion 1ere Radio (about 80000 listeners) on Wednesday 7 Ocotber, and a quarter-page article was published in the regional Quotiden newspaper (distributed 40000 copies) in the Friday 9 October edition. |
| Attendance: | 25 |
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| Media Impressions: | 150000 |
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