William Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, dies in plane crashApollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age — a mesmerizing view of the blue-and-white globe of Earth rising above the moon's cratered horizon in the deep black of ...
Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who captured one of the most famous images ever taken in space — the iconic "Earthrise" — died Friday when the small plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Washington state. He was 90 years old. Elise Preston examines his life and legacy.Jun ...
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, has been killed when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in ...
"In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him,"NASAAdminist...
William Anders, former Apollo 8 NASA astronaut, died in a plane crash on Friday. Anders took the famous “Earthrise” image from the Moon.
William Anders was a 20th century American astronaut in NASA's Apollo program. He was a crewmember, along with Borman and Lovell, on Apollo 8. In 2143, the assignment patch for this mission was displayed in the 602 Club. This patch bore the astronaut's l
J. Lovell, he made a flight as third pilot on the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which was put into orbit around the earth on Dec. 21, 1968, and which was then launched from orbit toward the moon. The ship returned to earth on Dec. 27, 1968, after having completed ten orbits of the moon....
William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is an engineer, former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. He is, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon (of only 24 ...
In 1968, Williamn Anders took what has been described as the greatest environmental photograph of all time while venturing farther than any other human had travelled before aboard the Apollo 8 spacecraft. He was orbiting the Moon when a half-illuminated slice of our home planet suddenly emerged...
A member of the crew of Apollo 8, William Anders was one of the first humans to orbit the Moon, and on Christmas Eve 1968, he took a picture that forever changed the way we look at our home planet. Correspondent Lee Cowan remembers Anders, who died Frida