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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.
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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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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Astronaut Families
What was it like to grow up in an astronaut's family? Read these questions and answers to find out. Apollo 8 lunar module pilot William Anders poses with his wife, Valerie, and children (clockwise ...
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Looking at the Moon from Apollo 8
The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men ... From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were able to describe the surface of the moon ...
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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 ...