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William Alison Anders (17 October 1933 – 7 June 2024) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) major general, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8, the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon.
Jun 21, 2024 · William A. Anders was a U.S. astronaut who participated in the Apollo 8 flight (1968), which was the first crewed voyage around the Moon and the first spaceflight beyond Earth orbit. On one of Apollo 8’s orbits around the Moon, Anders took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photograph.
Jun 7, 2024 · William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the Apollo 8 crew who became the first three people to circle the moon, has died in a plane crash.
Jun 8, 2024 · Retired Maj. Gen. 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, June 7, 2024, when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
Jun 8, 2024 · William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the...
Jun 10, 2024 · William A. Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who captured the iconic “Earthrise” photograph in December 1968, has died at the age of 90. The small, vintage plane he was piloting alone—a...
Jun 8, 2024 · Retired astronaut William Anders has died after the plane he was piloting crashed in Washington state, local media has reported. Anders was one of the first humans to orbit the Moon and he captured the "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
Jun 8, 2024 · SEATTLE — 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 plane he...
Jun 8, 2024 · William Anders, the US astronaut whose “Earthrise” photograph from lunar orbit captured humanity’s humble place in the cosmos, punctuating the 1960s’ race to the moon with one of the most...
Jun 8, 2024 · William Anders was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 8. On Christmas Eve in 1968, William Anders turned his camera toward Earth and captured the legendary Earthrise photo. After leaving NASA, Anders was named as U. S. Chairman of the joint US/USSR technology exchange program for nuclear fission and fusion power.
