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On This Day in Space! Oct. 24, 1946: V-2 Rocket Takes 1st Photos of Earth From Space
The film survived impact in a steel cassette, and scientists said the images revealed Earth’s clouds and curvature from above.
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Thanks to a camera mounted on a Nasa V-2 rocket, in 1946 we first observed our planet from afar.
·Rome, Italy
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On October 24, 1946, a rocket-mounted camera took the first known photographs of Earth from space.
·Budapest, Hungary
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THE FIRST photograph of Earth taken from space was taken on October 24, 1946, just a year and a half after the end of World War II.
·Zagreb, Croatia
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A camera, mounted on a Nazi V-2 rocket modified in the United States, took a photograph of planet Earth from outside the atmosphere. It was the first image captured from space.
·Bucharest, Romania
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