“This was not an easy photograph to take,” Pettit wrote, adding that the space station was ... lucky enough to include a rocket launch in one. Other notable images from Pettit’s current ...

On October 24, 1946, the V2 rocket became the first human-made object to reach outer space, reaching an altitude of about 65 miles. Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth.