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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Photograph of Earth from Space | ||
| An aerial photograph from outside the atmosphere. |
The first description of this that I've ever read. Also, it is the first use of satellite photography for reconnaissance that I know about.
| "I have a color photograph here."
Bill studied it, saw that it looked like an aerial photograph of a vast stretch of mountain and desert, a monotonous expanse of gray, tinged with green and red. A photograph, taken from space, of part of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. And see!" He pointed to a little blue disk in the green-gray expanse of a plain, just below a narrow mountain ridge, with the fine green line that marked a river just beside it. "That blue circle is the first ship that came..." |
| From The Prince of Space,
by Jack Williamson. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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The first actual pictures of the Earth from space were taken on March 7, 1947:
Mengel conducted upper atmosphere experiments by launching the rockets into near-earth orbit. He designed and fabricated the first research nose shell to replace of the V-2 warhead and began placing cameras in the nose shell.
...a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in these grainy black-and-white-photos - the first pictures of Earth as seen from altitude greater than 100 miles in space. Just the year before in 1946, scientists like John T. Mengel, a NASA pioneer who later oversaw the Vanguard Program, began experimenting with captured German V-2 rockets.
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