Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Most Chilling Moments in History

First-Ever Photo of Space

Although it might not look like much, this is the first photo in history to capture the Earth’s surface. It was snapped on October 24, 1946, from a U.S. V-2 rocket on a suborbital flight.

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