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?

Dread Knot · 10-25-14, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I wonder if it was a German camera?

Ja! A von Braunnie.

vienna · 10-25-14, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

Ja! A von Braunnie.

Good one!!

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Eichhörnchen · 10-25-14, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

Ja! A von Braunnie.

Ooooh Noooo!!

Dread Knot · 10-25-14, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vienna

Good one!!

<O>

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/ob...-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 · 10-25-14, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Dread Knot

Ja! A von Braunnie.

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

Gargamel · 10-25-14, 02:54 PM

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 · 10-26-14, 05:38 AM

I leica that photo.

vienna · 10-28-14, 11:46 AM

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

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Platapus · 10-28-14, 05:35 PM

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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.

Dread Knot · 10-28-14, 05:59 PM

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.

Platapus · 10-28-14, 06:05 PM

That is a cool shot. Interesting perspective

Wolferz · 10-30-14, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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.

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 · 10-30-14, 07:18 AM

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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.

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.

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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

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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.

And my personal favorite paragon of stupid---

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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 · 10-30-14, 06:55 PM

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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.

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

10-25-14, 01:16 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 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.

10-25-14, 02:54 PM	#7
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

10-26-14, 05:38 AM	#8
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I leica that photo. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-28-14, 11:46 AM	#9
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You were always so flash, weren't you?...Ziggy?... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

10-28-14, 05:35 PM	#10
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	[QUOTE=Platapus;2255210] 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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

10-28-14, 05:59 PM	#11
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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.

10-28-14, 06:05 PM	#12
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	That is a cool shot. Interesting perspective __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.