The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1, and later beat the US to the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The race peaked with the July 20, 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11.
The definition of a luminary is an object giving off light, or a personality that is well known or enlightening to mankind. An example of a luminary is a candle.
Lumen is a unit of light, which is also known as Luminous flux. Lumens (LM) are a measurement unit, which tells what the total amount of light emitted from a flashlight or headlamp. You can roughly say that the more Lumens the brighter the light. When we test and compare our products, we use Lumens to see the total amount of light output.