PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William "Bill" Anders ...
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, ...
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. Along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, Anders circled the ...
William Alison Anders was born on Oct. 17, 1933, in Hong Kong, where he was living with his mother, Muriel (Adams) Anders, while his father, Lt. Arthur Anders, a career Navy man, was serving as an ...
William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew who were the first three people to orbit the moon, has died in a plane crash in Washington state, according to his son ...
Anders, who was born in Hong Kong on Oct. 17, 1933, attended the U.S. Naval Academy and the Air Force Institute of Technology before being selected as an astronaut in the NASA space program in ...
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. Anders ...
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 Washington state.
William Alison Anders was born on Oct. 17, 1933, in Hong Kong, then a British colony, where his mother lived while his father, a Navy lieutenant, served aboard a gunboat patrolling the Yangtze ...
William Alison Anders was born on Oct. 17, 1933, in Hong Kong, which was then under British rule. The son of a U.S. Navy lieutenant, his family relocated to Annapolis, Maryland, shortly after his ...
Learn about William Anders, the lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the moon in 1968. See his biography, photos, and the legendary Earthrise photo he captured.
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders, who passed away June 7, in San Juan Islands, Washington state, at the age of 90.