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it was nicknamed the blue marble and it was taken by one of the astronaut astronauts on board, apollo 17. apollo 17 launched 40 years ago today, december 17, 1972. it was a night launch, aiming for littoral valley. gene certain non, harrison jack schmidt and ron evans aboard. apollo 17 launched at night, and when they landed three days later, the sun was behind them. and so that particular launch trajectory put a fully formed beautifully lit earth in the window of the command module at a time when the astronauts really should have been too busy to look at it. here is how al rainer, who could wrote the movie apollo 13 describes what happened. quote, at five hours and a few minutes into the flight of apollo 17, one of the crewmen looked out the window. what he saw inspired him to grab the only camera that wasn t stowed and snap a picture. but whoever did it said nothing on the radio or to their crewmates about it. it is possible they did it
there s a budget deal that s becoming clear. our long national nightmare might almost, and i repeat, it s washington, almost be over. this is kind of like one of those kids games where you have to look at a picture that looks like nonsense until your eyes filter out the garbage and you can finally see the sailboat. that s what s going on in washington. you have to filter out the garbage. take yesterday for example. i don t tune into c-span 2 for comedy, just because it s good television. but the senate was being hilarious about the debt ceiling, which is hard to be hilarious about. here s what happened. the white house has been pushing a plan to take control of the debt ceiling away from congress. that way congress couldn t blow up the world economy for no good reason. it s taking the sharp knife covered in explosives away from a kid who has a lot of temper tantrums. it s a good thing to do. the white house calls it the mcconnell plan because it s based on an idea that mitch