V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

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But 10 years before Sputnik would ignite the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, V-2 rockets taken ...

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like ...

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But 10 years before Sputnik would ignite the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, V-2 rockets taken from Nazi Germany after World War 2 were fired from White Sands Missile Range.