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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took ‘Earthrise’ photo, killed in plane crash
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 ...
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William Anders Death: What We Know About Astronaut's Plane Crash
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.
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Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash
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 ...
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Earth to Young Readers: Take a Look at Me From Space
Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a ...