Rocket Camera Photographs Earth's Curvature - At an altitude of about 57 miles, sequence camera in Aerobee rocket fired at White Sands Proving Grounds made this picture plainly showing the curvature of the earth and the ground haze around it. This is part of a strip in which a 1,400-mile area-from Wyoming into Mexico-was filmed. October 19, 1948. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).