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 ...

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.

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.

William Anders, born Oct. 17, 1933 in Hong Kong, was part of the three-man crew of the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, where he, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman became the first humans to reach the Moon and ...

Instead, the photo, which became known as "Earthrise," was taken more than six months earlier on Dec. 24, 1968, by astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8, the first crewed spacecraft to ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ picture, dies in plane crash at 90 by Alan Boyle on June 7, 2024 at 11:30 pm June 8, 2024 at 12:52 am Share 105 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

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 ...

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

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 ...