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    The First Men To Have The Whole World In Their Sights

    Christopher Potter's new history of space flight, The Earth Gazers, charts the road to the first photographs of Earth — and how it changes an astronaut to glimpse the entire planet at once.
    by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Feb 04, 2018 3 minutes
    In one of the most reproduced images of all time, the crew of Apollo 17 captured the perspective of Earth known as "Blue Marble."

    Solar eclipses, supermoons, a star-studded night sky — for us earthlings, looking up into space can be a transformative experience.

    But what about the other way around? What is it like to see the entire earth from space? Only a select group of astronauts have had that grand opportunity.

    "There was actually a physical moment in time when we answered a puzzle — something that's puzzled us throughout the whole of human history: What did the Earth

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