
In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried a 35mm motion picture camera to an altitude of 105 kilometres, and the grainy black-and-white frames it brought back became the first photographs of Earth taken from space — years before the camera’s own engineers had a name for the boundary it had crossed.
{"content":"On October 24, 1946, a 35mm DeVry motion picture camera bolted into the nose of a captured German V-2 rocket clicked through a single frame every second-and-a-half as the missile arced







