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First living organisms launched into space
OPEN · Feb 20, 1947 · Life in Space→LR-FIRST-IMAGE-FROM-SPACEFruit flies launched aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico, in 1946 became the first living organisms sent to space; on 20 February 1947 another V-2 carried fruit flies above 100 km and they were recovered alive by parachute.
First photograph taken from space
OPEN · Oct 24, 1946 · Robotic Exploration→LR-FIRST-HUMAN-MADE-OBJECT-TO-REACH-SPACEA camera mounted on a captured German V-2 rocket, launched by American scientists from White Sands, New Mexico, took the first photograph of Earth from space on October 24, 1946, from an altitude of about 105 km — decades before any satellite or human spaceflight, using salvaged German wartime rocket technology.
First human-made object to reach outer space
OPEN · Jun 20, 1944 · Spaceflight Firsts→The German V-2 test rocket MW 18014, launched from Peenemünde on 20 June 1944, reached an apogee of about 176 km, making it the first human-made object to cross the Kármán line into outer space.