History of digital photography – the space race!

History of digital photography – the space race!

As I mentioned above, the space race has a big part to play in the history of digital photography.

It’s 1957. Von Braun is in the American corner, and Sergei Korolev in the Russian corner. Both are trying to launch a satellite into space.

The Russians win that round with the launch of "Sputnik" in October 1957. The race was really on! The next challenge was to launch a man into space. We’re moving into the 1960’s now.

Why was the space race important to the history of digital photography? Well, very early on politicians on both sides of the cold war realized that if a satellite could be launched into space it could carry a camera. With a camera on board it could spy on the enemy.

The problem of course was this – there are no film developers in space! Taking pictures on film meant you had bring the film back to Earth somehow. And if it didn’t make it back to Earth – no pictures at all!

So a new system was invented that didn’t need film.

Digital cameras were the answer. They could record photographs and ‘beam’ the digital signal back to Earth. The signal was then decoded and the image could be viewed. This then is clearly a big development in the history of digital photography.

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