Jon Kelvey
Jon Kelvey
Writer on outer & inner space. Words in @AeroAmMag, @Independent, @lucidnewssite, @inversedotcom, @ArcDigi, @Slate @Popsci, et al. He/Him. Opinions mine.Source
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75 years ago, a Nazi rocket took the first photo of Earth from space

75 years ago, a Nazi rocket took the first photo of Earth from space

The first photo of Earth taken from space captured imaginations in 1946. by Jon KelveyOct. 24, 2021By the standards of today, it’s just a grainy black and white photo. It takes a minute to make out what are smooth white cloud formations floating above the fuzzy greyscale Earth, a swirl of monochrome set against the blackness of space.NASA astronauts have taken more than 900,000 images from space. But 75 years ago — before Scott Kelly was given a Nikon D4, and before the famous “Blue Marble” full view of Earth — there was this. The very first photograph of Earth from space. It was taken on...

March 27, 2023
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