Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders has died at 90 years old, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said on Friday.
Astronaut William Anders, of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, during a panel interview held at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, April 5, 2018.
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Anders took the iconic Earthrise photograph, showing the moon’s surface and Earth in lunar orbit, on Christmas Eve in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.
Earthrise – Apollo 8, December 24, 1968. This view of the rising Earth greeted the Apollo 8 astronauts as they came from behind the Moon after the fourth nearside orbit. The photo, by astronaut William Anders, is displayed here in its original orientation, though it is more commonly viewed with the lunar surface at the bottom of the photo.
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Portrait of the crew of NASA’s Apollo 8, Florida, December 1968. Pictured are, from left, command module pilot James Lovell, lunar module pilot William Anders, and Commander Frank Borman.
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The Apollo 8 crew was composed of commander Frank Borman, lunar module pilot Anders and command module pilot James Lovell. The three served as the crew for the first manned Apollo mission launched aboard the Saturn V and the first manned Apollo craft to enter lunar orbit.
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