First Photograph of Earth from Space
“White Sands, New Mexico, October 24, 1946. A captured V-2 rocket carrying a 35mm camera lifts on a column of fire. Foreground shows scientists in jumpsuits watching the launch from a bunker; midground reveals the rocket already curving toward 65 miles altitude; the desert sun whitens the basin while the future first photograph of Earth from space is exposed at apogee.”
