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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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Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?
A year went by with little progress, but in May 2013 Wright emailed me, “I think I have new evidence that Bill Anders took all three Earthrise photos.” On a website called the Apollo Flight ...
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NASA Astronaut Bill Anders, Who Took Famous Photo Of Earth During Apollo, Dies At 90
Apollo astronaut Bill Anders, who captured one of the most famous ... selected by NASA to be the iconic Earthrise picture." That photo was immortalized on a postage stamp and on countless magazine ...
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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 ...