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