William ‘Bill’ Anders, former astronaut and member of the Apollo 8 mission, has died in a plane crash at the age of 90. His son Gregory announced it. The man was the author of a historic photograph entitled ‘Earthrise’: in the shot the blue planet stands out against the darkness, with the lunar surface in the foreground.
William ‘Bill’ Anders and the historic photo entitled ‘Earthrise’
William ‘Bill’ Andersformer astronaut member of the mission Apollo 8 and author of the legendary photograph ‘Earthrise’‘The Rising of the Earth’, is died in a plane crash at the age of 90. This was announced by Anders’ son, Gregory Alla CNN.
“My father died in a plane crash in the islands San Juan“, off the coast of Seattle, in the North-West of the United States, the man told the broadcaster. The man was driving an aircraft alone, they are investigating the accident investigating the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.
William Anders
The Apollo 8 mission took off in December 1968 with Anders and two other astronauts on board, Frank Borman And James Lovell. Before becoming an astronaut, William Anders served as a fighter pilot in the US Army.
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William Anders, Frank Borman and James Lovell
Anders made his mark on space exploration with a photography iconic, entitled: “Earthrise”, taken during the Apollo 8 mission, the first to orbit the Moon. In this photograph from Christmas Eve 1968, the blue planet stands out against the darkness, with surface lunar in the foreground.
Anders “gave humanity one of the most precious gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the edge of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” the NASA administrator wrote Bill Nelson on X. “There will miss“.
William Anders “changed the world forever vision of our planet and of ourselves with his famous photo (…) He inspired me and generations of astronauts”, commented the former NASA astronaut and US senator Mark Kelly on the same social network.
