The first photo of the earth taken from space was taken by a V-2 rocket.

19461On October 24th, the first photo of the earth was taken from space. It is very interesting that this was done with a V-2 rocket designed during Nazi Germany. In other words, Hitler's Third Reich had a rocket program led by the famous scientist unger Werner wernher von braun (who later became the director of NASA).

The V-2 rocket that took pictures of the earth from space was launched by Americans, who seized a large number of such rockets and their corresponding equipment from the Third Reich.

The V-2 rocket that took the photo was launched by an American. They seized a large number of such rockets and their corresponding equipment from the Third Reich (the number is really huge, measuring hundreds of train cars). V-2 rocket was brought from Europe to the United States, mainly in New Mexico, and further tested in Baisha (still the largest military facility in the United States and the testing ground for the first nuclear bomb planned by Manhattan). 1947, the so-called Roswell incident also occurred near Baisha.

On this day, the camera equipment installed on the V-2 rocket launched from New Mexico can take a picture every 1.5 seconds. The highest altitude of a rocket can reach 105 km (it is generally believed that 100 km is the dividing line between the atmosphere and space). These photos are revolutionary, because the highest altitude of the previous photos is only 22 kilometers (these photos were taken on a balloon in 1935).