First “Photograph” | 1826
First Nude Photographs | 1839
First Underwater Photograph | 1856
First Aerial Photograph | 1858
First Colour Photograph | 1861
First Image from Space | 1946
On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. [source]
First image of the Entire Earth | 1968
The Apollo 8 mission’s impressive list of firsts includes; the first manned flight using the Saturn V rocket, the first humans to journey to the Earth’s Moon, and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. [source]
First image obtained on another planet | 1975
On October 20 1975, Venera 9 (a Russian spacecraft) made a soft landing on the surface of Venus and took the first digital images on another planet.
First image of planet outside solar system | 2005
