Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first person to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
The first human being to orbit the Earth was Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin in his spacecraft, Vostok, in April 1961.
The first people to explore and map the entire Earth were born in various regions around the world, including Europe, Asia, and Africa. Notable explorers like Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, and Zheng He hailed from different countries and backgrounds.
Eratosthenes, a Greek scholar from the 3rd century BCE, is often considered the first geographer. He is known for measuring the circumference of the Earth and creating one of the earliest maps of the known world.
Eratosthenes is called the father of Geography because he was one of the first to use mathematics and systematic principles to map and study the Earth's surface. He calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy and created one of the earliest known maps of the world. His work laid the foundation for the discipline of geography.
The second country on Earth is likely to have been Mesopotamia, which is now modern-day Iraq. Mesopotamia is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, dating back to around 3500 BC.
The first large continents appeared around 3 billion years ago during the Archean Eon. These early continents were smaller and different in composition compared to modern continents, but they marked the beginning of continental crust formation on Earth.
No animal has orbited the moon other than man. Dogs and monkeys have orbited the earth.
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John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
Nobody has orbited space but some have orbited the earth and the moon.
I believe rats were used first, then a solitary monkey.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times oFebruary 20, 1962 becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962 upon the spaceship Friendship 7.
He was 41 years old when he first orbited earth.
40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
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No country has ever orbited the earth. Scientists and engineers in the USSR placed the first man-made satellite in earth orbit, in 1957.