Bill Anders, a legend in the aerospace world is being remembered following a tragic plane crash near Orcas Island that killed him at the age of 90. Even if you didn’t know the name, Bill Anders, he almost certainly helped shape the way you view our planet. He was one of three men who first […]
Bill Anders, who as an Apollo 8 astronaut was one of the first people to fly to the moon in 1968, was killed on Friday (June 7) when the vintage plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of the San Juan Islands in northwest Washington State. Anders, 90, was confirmed to be the pilot […]
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water north of Seattle, according to NASA, local officials and his family. He was 90. The Coast Guard for the […]
SEATTLE (AP) — 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 plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, […]
SEATTLE (AP) — 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 plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, […]
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, Gregory Anders. He was 90 years old. My “dad passed in an aircraft incident in the San Juan […]
By Steve Gorman and Peter Cooney (Reuters) – Retired astronaut William Anders, one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, who captured the “Earthrise” photo during NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, died on Friday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Washington state, local media reported. Anders, 90, was the only person […]
Anders Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage, is still dangerous and should stay in solitary confinement, Norway’s government said on Friday as it rejected his legal claim that his human rights are being violated. “There is a great danger of violence and that he will inspire others. […]