Mastodawn

The first published photo of Earth from space was released 77 years ago today (7 March 1947).

It was taken from a captured German V-2 rocket, used by the US Army as part of Operation Paperclip, at an altitude of 101 miles (162km).

T. A. Bergstrahl Publishes the First Book of Photographs of the Earth Taken From Space

Interesting bit of history trivia. The very first photo of Earth from space was taken on October 24, 1946, by another US Army V-2 rocket flight.

But this photo was not publicly revealed until 1950, perhaps because of its lack of recognizable detail.

In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere

Smithsonian Magazine

@coreyspowell clearly, the earth is flat!!

A global, 2000-year-long conspiracy conducted with perfect precision for absolutely no reason!