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in that 108 minutes, but rather a solid record breaking 25 hours in 18 minutes. Teethoff remains even to this day in 1926, the youngest human ever to orbit the earth, and no American would surpass the length of his flight until Gordon Cooper, almost two years later. Gueriman logged an impressive list of first notes where the accomplishments on this mission. He was the first human to orbit the earth repeatedly, the first to remain in space for an entire day, the first to take manual control of an orbiting spacecraft, the first to photograph and film the earth from orbit. Teethoff was also the first to sleep there, and in fact the first to over sleep there. He was even the first to become violently sick there, and that's in a brief.