Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in the village of Klushino, in the then USSR. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin made ​​the first historic human journey into space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft orbiting the Earth. On March 27, 1968 Yuri Gagarin died when the MiG-15UTI he was flying on crashed to the ground.

Yuri Gagarin received many honors during his life and many other were posthumous. The posthumous tributes have been made over the years in important moments such as the first landing of humans on the Moon and the 50th anniversary of his flight. Even today, flying in space carries risks, in 1961 a it was a truly amazing achievement. For this reason, despite the Cold War, Yuri Gagarin was always highly respect beyond ideology.