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.

William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died ...

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 ...

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic ''Earthrise'' photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronaut William Anders took the black-and-white snapshot during the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve in December 1968; it’s expected to fetch anywhere from to $13,000 to $19,000.

the former NASA astronaut’s outlook on space travel mirrors fellow former astronaut William Anders, who shot the famous Earthrise photograph of our planet on the Apollo 8 mission. Anders once ...