Editing Circumnavigation (section)

==Astronautics==
The first person to fly in space, [[Yuri Gagarin]], also became the first person to complete an [[orbital spaceflight]] in the [[Vostok 1]] spaceship within 2 hours on April 12 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1961-012A|title=NASA – NSSDCA – Spacecraft – Details|website=nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov}}</ref> The flight started at 63°&nbsp;E, 45&nbsp;N and ended at 45°&nbsp;E 51°&nbsp;N; thus Gagarin did not circumnavigate Earth completely.

[[Gherman Titov]] in the [[Vostok 2]] was the first human to fully circumnavigate Earth in spaceflight and made 17.5 orbits on August 6, 1961.