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A day late, but this is one of the first images taken of Earth from space. Ever. It was acquired from an altitude of 105 km (five times higher than the previous record) eighty years ago, on 24 October 1946, with a 35 mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

Credit: U.S. Army/White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory

And this is an image of Earth from space taken by the Artemis II Crew on the second day of their flight—the first crewed flight to lunar space since 1972. Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew