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Orbits
1991
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1988
Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1969
Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1969
Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1968
Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1966
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966
Luna 10 orbits Moon
1966
Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1965
Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965
Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1963
Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1963
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury
1962
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7
1961
Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1633
Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)
1571
Johann Kepler, Wurttemberg Germany, astronomer, elliptical orbits
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