A V-2 rocket launched by the United States after the Second World War captured the first photograph of Earth from space, an image born from a technology once tied to wartime destruction.
A V-2 rocket launched by the United States after the Second World War captured the first photograph of Earth from space, an image born from a technology once tied to wartime destruction.
Great, so the first picture of our planet from above came out of a rocket built to level cities. Nice bit of irony, and somehow nobody at the time asked the obvious question: who signed off on pointing the lens at the sky in the first place, and what was the real budget line? The piece tells us a V-2 took the shot, then moves on like the military origin is just a footnote.