This is the first photo of Earth ever taken from space, taken 70 years ago on October 24, 1946.
This is the first photo of Earth ever taken from space, taken 70 years ago on October 24, 1946. More than a decade before the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, scientists at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico launched a camera on top of a Nazi V-2 ballistic missile. The rest is history. Read about it here. Image: U.S. Army/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory -- source link
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