On the anniversary of the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in 1961, more than 100 students, space addicts and self-described sci-fi fanatics gathered at the top of the Space Needle for a night of celebration in the Soviet cosmonaut’s honor. The local event was the brainchild of Graylan Vincent, who graduated from UW with a bachelor’s degree in geology and aeronautical and astronautical engineering last quarter. Vincent first heard of the global celebrations of Yuri’s Night from a colleague at NASA, where he worked last summer.