
The early flag versions also had more simplified designs, depicting white outlines of the clouds, on the light blue circle, instead of more detailed photography of the planet. 69HC487, taken by the crew of the Apollo 10 on. Prior to 1973, the flag design used the photography no. The planet is placed on the dark blue background. The current version of the flag consists of The Blue Marble, a photograph of Earth taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon. In 1969, peace activist John McConnell proposed his design titled the Earth Flag. The photography of Earth taken by the crew of the Apollo 10 on, used in the first version of the flag design proposed by John McConnell.

It is a blue star because I try to become a brother of a new brotherhood. So the star in the comer represents my aim. But I believe that God is within each of us, and that our aim should be to be conscious of him, to become a self-shining light, a star. The blue circle also represents a planet, like the earth, which receives its light from the sun as we have received our light from God. It is through freedom to experience, and the pain experience brings, that we learn. On top of the circle of brotherhood lies the red cross of freedom and of pain. The dark blue circle stands for the brotherhood of man, for though we fight like brothers we must grow a loyalty to our one family if we are to survive. On this right the human world stands or falls. The white stands for equal rights - not equality, but equal rights for men to evolve, each according to his individuality. George cutting a dark blue circle and in the upper left corner is a blue star. It has a white ground with a red cross of St.

In 1940, in San Francisco, eight years before American actor and peace activist Garry Davis renounced his citizenship, Dibbern created his own passport declaring himself a “Friend of all peoples” and a "Citizen of the World." He described his flag with these words: In 1939 residency was denied Dibbern as he refused to take up arms for any country and he became widely known as a “man without a country”. The flag was presented by George Dibbern on July 1, 1937, and the reason for its creation was the reluctance to use the flag of Nazi Germany on his yacht Te Rapunga.

"Citizen of the World Flag" by George Dibbern (1937)
