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V-2 No. 13
The
White Sands rocket
(official name
V-2 No. 13
) was the first man-made object to take a photograph of the
Earth
from
outer space
. Launched on October 24, 1946, at the
White Sands Missile Range
in
White Sands, New Mexico
, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 107.5 miles (173 km), well above the
commonly accepted boundary of space
at 100 kilometres.
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