When the Allies vanquished Nazi Germany in 1945, the U.Scaptured many of the Germans' powerful V-2 rockets which, after translation, is short for "Vengeance Weapon Two."
Those seized rockets didn't stay in Europe for long. After being transported across the world and pieced together on the windswept, desert plains of southern New Mexico, U.S. engineers (and, controversially, captured Nazi scientists) launched a technologically-advanced V-2 rocket 65 miles above the planet's surface on Oct. 24, 1946. In doing so, they captured the first photographs of Earth from space.
And so began an unwritten custom of looking back onto our cloudy planet — even if our spacecraft had other missions, sometimes bound for destinations millions (or billions) of miles away in deep, uncharted space. Read more...
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