The first photograph taken from 100 miles up in space by an automatic camera installed on V2 launched from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, released by the NAVY on the 20 March 19477 March 1947Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 18 x 25. 3 cm (7 x 10 in), a press photograph with Associated Press Wirephoto logo and cropping marks on the recto, press notes and date stamps on the verso, dating the print 21 March 1947Footnotes:More than 200 square miles of the and Mexico are shown. Distance from bottom to curved horizon is 900 miles. Past clters of small clouds are Gulf of California (dark area, upper left), 65 miles wide, and beyond it, Lower California and Pacific Ocean (smaller dark fingers extending from left). Scene is looking west. (AP Wirephoto caption)