September 28, 1980 –
Billions and billions of brilliant moments on TV are about to be aired – Carl Sagan’s 13 part Cosmos premiered on PBS.
In many episodes we see a photo of Earth showing Africa in the upper left. That is the ‘Blue Marble‘ photo taken in 1972 by Apollo 7 astronauts on their way to the moon. It is one of the most famous of all space photos, and for 30 years was the only full sunlight shot of Earth.
The Haus of Dcaligari 