From the Archives: First Photo from Space

From NASA's Earth Observatory:

On October 24, 1946, well before Sputnik, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles (104 kilometers) by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Photo: White Sands Missile Laboratory's Applied Physics Laboratory.

Read more about it from Air and Space Magazine at
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/?no-ist