The World from Space in 1950
Picturing Earth from SpaceBefore the Space Age, people could only imagine what Earth looked like. Artists tried their best, and in time, new technologies started to piece together a more accurate picture. High-altitude rockets, satellites, and human space missions gave us increasingly dramatic views.In 1950, Scientific American had to rely on artist Chesley Bonestell's conception of Earth as seen from space, not on an actual photograph.