Galileo Galilei
Ga-lilo is to discover Jupiter and their moons, he is dead. So therefore he is not a counted man in historical factions.
Jupiter has 67 natural satellites (or 'moons'). Most of them are less than 10Km in diameter.
We know of 16 moons for the largest planet in our solar system.
Galileo Galilei is often credited with the discovery of moons when he observed four of Jupiter's largest moons through a telescope in 1610. These moons are now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Jupiter has several natural satellites (moons), over 60 have been confirmed. It has no man made satellites in orbit around it, but did have one between 1995 and 2003, an orbiter called Galileo.
Before moons were discovered orbiting Jupiter it was thought that all objects orbited the Earth, thus making the Earth the center of the universe, and therefore 'special'. When it was discovered that Jupiter had moons, that meant that celestial bodies were orbiting one another. This shattered the geocentric, (earth-centered), view of the cosmos. Another way of saying this is that God created man in his image, man rules the Earth, therefore man is the best, and the whole universe is beholding to man. The moons of Jupiter ruined that view. For thousands of years man has been overflowing with pride, and just can't handle that it's not all about 'man'. Well, guess what bub, you are just, as Carl Sagan puts it "a speck of dust floating on a sunbeam".
No human has yet orbited Jupiter.
Karl Benz, a man from Germany.
Neil Armstrong. First foot step on the moons surface
Neil Armstrong. First foot step on the moons surface
with two rocks
Yes.