Earth’s First Selfie | Generation X

with you watching on a dark December
night the final Apollo mission blasts
off as the astronauts leave Earth behind
they do something remarkable they take a
family photo as the astronauts were
leaving Earth within just a few hours
they were able to turn their cameras
back around and look at the earth they
were at the appropriate distance the
time was just perfect for them to be
able to see that whole illuminated globe
it’s us all of us the entire human race
in one picture look at ourselves our
earth this photograph was taken during
the flight of Apollo 17 it shows our
earth moving through a void our world of
war and earthquakes but also peace and
beauty all of it and all of us so close
together so small in the universe NASA
is doing this incredible project to send
people away from Earth but what we
actually end up doing is looking back
and saying we’re all part of this tiny
little sphere like seeing ourselves in a
mirror for the first time billions of
people all one family if you’re a kid in
school and you look at a map it’s all
borders and every country is a different
color and this thing was one world it
just felt very new even though it was
the oldest thing around
you