The First Astronaut Photograph?
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From 70 mm Film
This otherwise unremarkable image is probably the first photograph of Earth ever taken by an astronaut. It is from Alan Shepard’s first flight in 1961, and it was taken just about the time the capsule first reached space. Records from that era are inexact.
(I wrote a long article about this photo.)
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