Famed Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, 90, dies in horror crash when his plane nose-dives into waters
William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died ...
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William Anders Death: What We Know About Astronaut's Plane Crash
Former NASA astronaut William Anders was killed in a plane crash on Friday off the coast of Jones Island in San Juan County, Washington state, according to his family. He was 90 years old.
Beyond Earthrise: Blue Ghost’s Chilling New Perspective From the Moon
More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...
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Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash
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 ...
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Seeing the Earth from Afar
But now we were really space explorers venturing away from our home, the Earth." — Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut One of the most famous photographs in history was taken by Bill Anders from ...
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Looking at the Moon from Apollo 8
From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were able to describe the surface of the moon in detail. "The back side [of the moon] looks like a ...
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That Photograph
The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...