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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 8, 2024 · 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.
Jun 7, 2024 · SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. - Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, was killed in a plane crash just off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon. Anders' son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
Jun 7, 2024 · Maj. Gen. William A. Anders, who flew on the first manned space mission to orbit the moon, the Apollo 8 “Genesis flight” of Christmas Eve 1968, and took the color photograph “Earthrise,” which...
Jun 12, 2024 · Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut, died of multiple blunt-force injuries when the plane he was piloting last week crashed off the coast of Jones Island, officials said ...
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 · Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most famous photographs taken in outer space, has died in a plane crash at the age of 90.
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 18, 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.
Jun 8, 2024 · William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who captured a famous photo of Earth looking like a blue marble from space, was reportedly killed in an airplane crash in Washington on Friday. He...