When I delved deeper into the photo archives from Apollo 8, one added wrinkle awaited me: The iconic color image wasn’t the first Earthrise photo, as most people assumed.Just before he saw the ...

More than 50 years after it was shot, Earthrise continues to be seen as one of the most iconic environmental photographs ever taken. On Christmas Eve, 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 captured a ...

Astronaut Bill Anders, who orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, has died in a plane crash off the coast of Washington state. His photo 'Earthrise' captivated the world.

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Astronaut William Anders, the 1951 Grossmont High School graduate who took what may be the most famous photo of Earth during the history-making Apollo 8 mission, has died at 90.

A post shows Nixon speaking to Apollo 11 astronauts while they're on the moon with 'Earthrise', a photo taken during Apollo 8, on the wall behind him.

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who was responsible for the "Earthrise" photo during the 1968 mission, has died at the age of 90.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...

Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash ...