The first photograph of Earth from space wasn't taken by an astronaut or a satellite, but by a camera strapped to a weapon of war, surviving the very machine that carried it skyward. On October 24, 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket rose off a pad at White Sands Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, climbed to an altitude of approximately 65 miles, and fell back to the desert floor. Bolted into a steel canister inside its nose c... [9219 chars]
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