24Oct46 - First photograph from space

Platapus · 10-25-14, 01:16 PM

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the...721411/?no-ist

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.

I wonder if it was a German camera?

10-25-14, 01:16 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	24Oct46 - First photograph from space http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the...721411/?no-ist 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. I wonder if it was a German camera? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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