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  2. Gherman Titov - Wikipedia

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    Titov was the first human photographer from space: he made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern first photos of Earth from space by a human (the first picture of the planet from space was shot by a V-2 rocket in 1946, launched from New Mexico). He also was the first person to film the Earth using a ...

  3. Explorer 6 - Wikipedia

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    The launch of Explorer 6 Universal newsreel about the launch of Explorer 6. Explorer 6, or S-2, was a NASA satellite, launched on 7 August 1959, at 14:24:20 GMT.It was a small, spherical satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites.

  4. Kármán line - Wikipedia

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    Earth's atmosphere photographed from the International Space Station.The orange and green line of airglow is at roughly the altitude of the Kármán line.. The Kármán line (or von Kármán line / v ɒ n ˈ k ɑːr m ɑː n /) is a conventional definition of the edge of space.

  5. Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings - Wikipedia

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    On the left are two photos taken on the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 astronauts August 2, 1971 during EVA 3 at station 9A near Hadley Rille. On the right is a 2008 reconstruction from images taken by the SELENE terrain camera and 3D projected to the same vantage point as the surface photos. The terrain is a close match within the SELENE ...

  6. File:Earth from Space.jpg - Wikipedia

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    The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain. Materials based on Hubble Space Telescope data may be copyrighted if they are not explicitly produced by the STScI. See also {{PD-Hubble}} and {{Cc-Hubble}}.

  7. Family Portrait (Voyager) - Wikipedia

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    The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions.

  8. Satellite imagery - Wikipedia

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    The first images from space were taken on the sub-orbital V-2 rocket flight launched by the US on October 24, 1946. Satellite image of Fortaleza.. Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

  9. List of space debris fall incidents - Wikipedia

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    1969: five sailors on a Japanese ship were injured when space debris from what was believed to be a Soviet spacecraft struck the deck of their boat.; 1978: the Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reentered the atmosphere over northwest Canada and scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some landing in the Great Slave Lake.