24Oct46 - First photograph from space

[Platapus]

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/?no-ist

http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/33/d1/33d15156-47cd-4307-9c23-e3c8498539f5/1stphotofromspacejpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg__800x6 00_q85_crop.jpg

Taken at an altitude of 65 miles, which is above the Karman line. 35mm movie camera placed in a captured German V-2. There was no re-entry system and no parachutes. The film was protected by a steel casket.

When the rocket came down, it made a nice V-2 shaped hole in the desert. The ground crew was surprised that the film survived.

68 Years later any person with an Internets Tubes account can access Googlemaps and get high resolution pictures of ... almost... every where on the earth. :up:

I wonder if it was a German camera? :hmmm:

[Dread Knot]

I wonder if it was a German camera? :hmmm:

Ja! A von Braunnie. :O:

[vienna]

Ja! A von Braunnie. :O:

Good one!! :up:


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[Eichhörnchen]

Ja! A von Braunnie. :O:

:har::rotfl2::har: Ooooh Noooo!!

[Dread Knot]

Good one!! :up:


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Near as I can tell, the camera was a one-of-a kind developed for the V-2 rocket testing by a staff engineer at White Sands named Clyde Holliday.

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/26/obituaries/clyde-t-holliday-70-filmed-earth-features.html

Sounds like he had to fight to get it aboard. Most of the staff were only interested in telemetry and cosmic ray readings.

Pictures or it didn't happen boys.

[Platapus]

Ja! A von Braunnie. :O:

That pun was so bad, I wished I had thought of it.

[Gargamel]

I didn't even get the pun till Platy pointed it out LOL!

I think I'm going to go recreate this in KSP right now.

[Jimbuna]

I leica that photo.

[vienna]

You were always so flash, weren't you?...Ziggy?...


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[Platapus]

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http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/33/d1/33d15156-47cd-4307-9c23-e3c8498539f5/1stphotofromspacejpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg__800x6 00_q85_crop.jpg

This picture was kept Tippy Top Totally Secret for many years because it refutes the "theory" that the Earth is round. Look at it. A pretty straight line of the horizon. :shifty:

[Dread Knot]

There was a nice shot of the earth and moon together in space taken from China’s Chang’e-5 T1 lunar test flight today. The far side of the moon is not quite as visually interesting as the near side. Note the lack of stars. I'm sure somebody will be screaming hoax. :D

http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CE5T1_Moon_2-580x580.jpg

[Platapus]

That is a cool shot. Interesting perspective

[Wolferz]

There was a nice shot of the earth and moon together in space taken from China’s Chang’e-5 T1 lunar test flight today. The far side of the moon is not quite as visually interesting as the near side. Note the lack of stars. I'm sure somebody will be screaming hoax. :D

http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CE5T1_Moon_2-580x580.jpg


The light from the stars gets washed out by the light from our star in every picture taken in space. The Apollo 11 astronauts found out what the sun can do to a camera when it's not protected by an atmosphere when they turned their TV camera toward the sun and immediately burned out the lens circuitry.:huh:

The Earth and the moon only show up in this picture because of the extremely bright light from the solar mass reflecting off of them.

[Dread Knot]

The light from the stars gets washed out by the light from our star in every picture taken in space. The Apollo 11 astronauts found out what the sun can do to a camera when it's not protected by an atmosphere when they turned their TV camera toward the sun and immediately burned out the lens circuitry.:huh:

The Earth and the moon only show up in this picture because of the extremely bright light from the solar mass reflecting off of them.

You know that. I know that. Anyone who has ever tried to take a photograph of stars in the night sky with anything less than a time exposure knows that. I was just responding to the precious nuggets of dumbness mixed with racism like these, which popped up after China landed its rover on the moon last year.


Its ALL FAKE
All of it
Moon mars etc
All filmed at area 51
Moon filming admitted by Stanley Kubrick
Do some research ... Google Project paperclip
Is a good start

Nice try China, 40 years later and you've managed to make a less believable moon landing video than NASA. I know you don't have Kubrick to direct your masterpiece, but come on...it's bee 40 years and you're still using the same tired tropes NASA did, and less effectively too. America's fakes are still better than yours.

:03: And my personal favorite paragon of stupid---


This is clearly a hoax, filmed in a warehouse or soundstage somewhere in China. For starters, where are the stars? The moon is like, 250,000 miles closer to the stars than the Earth, so obviously logic would dictate that any stars should be more visible, not less so.

[Platapus]

The Apollo 11 astronauts found out what the sun can do to a camera when it's not protected by an atmosphere when they turned their TV camera toward the sun and immediately burned out the lens circuitry.:huh:


I actually think that was Apollo 12 and it was Alan Bean who pointed the camera to the sun accidentally.

[Tchocky]

Rather terrifying picture when you consider the possibilities of the V2, or indeed any ballistic missile. Great post.