Air & Space Magazine - On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space.

A cool little piece of aerospace history. Must have been cool to be one of the guys involved in that project.

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