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125 In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket lifted off from White Sands carrying a 35mm DeVry motion picture camera bolted into its nose, and at 65 miles up it shot the first photographs ever taken of Earth from space — the film canister survived the crash because engineers had wrapped it in steel and buried it in the desert sand

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · today 04:41 EDT

In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket lifted off from White Sands carrying a 35mm DeVry motion picture camera bolted into its nose, and at 65 miles up it shot the first photographs ever taken of Earth from space — the film canister survived the crash because engineers had wrapped it in steel and buried it in the desert sand

On October 24, 1946, a captured V-2 rocket fired from White Sands carried a 35mm camera to 65 miles up and brought back the first photographs of Earth from space — the film survived because engineers had wrapped it in steel and trusted the desert sand to catch it.

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