William Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age, was killed when his small plane went down off the coast of Washington state.
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 ...
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. Elis
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
"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...
Anders, William Born Oct. 17, 1933, in Hong Kong. American pilot and astronaut; air force major. In 1955, Anders graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the degree of bachelor of science. Upon graduating from the Air Force Institute of Technology he received the degree of master...
Become a member to see William Anders's contact information. Try IMDbPro Premium for free William Anders(III) Edit pageAdd to list Track Credits 6 titles Self(2 titles) Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed the World(2018) (TV Movie)-Self - The Astronaut ...
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 ...
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
NASA administrator Bill Nelson saidin a post on X,formerly Twitter, on Friday: “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: our...