Trending badgeTrendingPosted 55 minutes agoMy Mind Is Absolutely Blown By These 39 Photos That Are Making Me Look At History And Time Very DifferentlyTIL the first selfie was taken 186 years ago.by Brian GalindoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. These photos, taken in 1946, are the first photos of Earth taken from space: Jhu Sheridan Libraries / Getty Images They were able to achieve this by launching a V-2 missile carrying a 35-millimeter motion picture camera into space.