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The V-2 No. 13 [1] was a modified V-2 rocket that became the first object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Launched on 24 October 1946, [ 4 ] at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico , the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles (105 km).
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
A modern airship, Zeppelin NT D-LZZF in 2010 The LZ 129 Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built and was destroyed in 1937. Dirigible airships compared with related aerostats, from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1890–1907
Pesquet returned to Earth after six months on the International Space Station, and while he was there he became a social media star for his glorious pics. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet shares ...
First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. [32] [33] [34] [7] [19] December 11, 1966 ATS-1: First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit. [35] First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit. [35] [image needed] January 1967
Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. It would be the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth has been collecting and categorizing photos taken by astronauts. They see Earth from an altitude of about 250 miles as the station travels at a speed ...
The airship was moved from Amsterdam to Cape Town by ship and then flown to Gaborone where a Lockheed Martin full tensor gravity gradiometer was installed. [25] This instrument, owned and operated by Bell Geospace, measures changes in the Earth's gravity field associated with geological density variations.