What’s the story?

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Answer:
Stewart brand created buttons (1) asking for a picture of the whole earth. NASA then released this pic (2) taken by the astronauts on one of the Apollo missions.

This eventually lent its name to the Whole Earth Catalog (3) put out by Brand and his colleagues.