Our rating: False While the image in the post is dated correctly, it is not the first image of the Earth's curvature. The first such photo was taken more than two decades earlier in the 1930s.

At that altitude U-2 pilots, who have to wear full-pressure suits similar to those of astronauts that ensure survivability during depressurization, are able to see the curvature of the Earth and ...

A March 9 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) features an image of the Earth taken from outer space. “The first ‘photo’ of the curvature was published on April Fools Day,” reads the text in the ...