In 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried Clyde Holliday’s 35-millimetre DeVry motion-picture camera above the Kármán line and returned the first photographs of Earth from space on film recovered after the rocket crashed in the New Mexico desert

On October 24, 1946, a captured V-2 rocket carried a 35-millimetre motion picture camera above White Sands and produced the first photographs of Earth taken from space — recovered from a steel film cassette in the crater where the rocket smashed back into the New Mexico desert. The post In 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried Clyde Holliday’s 35-millimetre DeVry motion-picture camera above the Kármán line and returned the first photographs of Earth from space on