Yuri Gagarin, the short astronaut with a charming smile Today have been 50 years since Yuri Gagarin death. The 27th of March of 1968 the Yuri Gagarin flight crashed while he was piloting the plane. The circumstances around the accident were confusing and not obvious. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was the perfect example of a Soviet man, perfect to play the role of an astronaut thrown to conquer the outer space while cold war was taken place. Young, with an overwhelming charm and a smile that Sergei Korolev described as "gleaming", he probed being able to dominate orbital flight complexities and the demanding physical tests. Yuri had his origins in a humble family and became a Soviet Army Official after being an aprentice in a foundry. He was a good public relations and had experience as a pilot and parachutist. Although he was short (around 160cm), this was convenient due to the reduce sapce in Vostok space capsule. In contrast with his colleages, he was never involved in a public scandal. The 12th of 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to complete a whole one orbit around the Earth.