Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
Actually Armstrong was probably the only legitimate first. The Vikings, at a minimum, preceded Columbus and Magellan died prior to circling the globe.
That's true. And their may have been other Europeans before them. But they weren't robust enough to project themselves onto the New World. We are the cultural descendents of Columbus, not Ericson.