Yuri Gagarin was a famous Russian cosmonaut and the first man to enter space and orbit the Earth, on the ‘Vostok 1.’ He became a national hero and a global celebrity after his successful mission that marked a victory for the ‘Eastern Bloc’ against the West in the race to space. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the ‘Soviet Air Forces’ and was chosen as one of the 20 pilots for the Soviet space program. After strenuous training and psychological tests, Gagarin and Gherman Titov were shortlisted as the final two candidates for the first human space mission. Gagarin was the preferred candidate for the historic feat because of his short stature and presence of mind. After the mission, he became the deputy training director of the Star City cosmonaut training base and was elected as a deputy to the ‘Soviet of Nationalities.’ He re-qualified as a fighter pilot and successfully completed a thesis on the spaceplane, which was to be the space craft for the future. Ironically, he died in a ‘Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG)-15UTI’ crash near the town of Kirzhach during a routine training flight from ‘Chkalovsky Air Base.’ His body was cremated and his ashes were buried in the walls of the ‘Kremlin’ on Red Square to honor his contribution to the Russian space program.