William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. On Friday morning, Anders was piloting a small plane that dove into the water ...

Bill Anders was on Apollo 8 when it entered lunar orbit in 1968. He also took the 'earthrise' photo, one of the most famous space images ever. It's been a big week for space flight. The new Boeing ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...

American astronaut William Anders ... mourned Anders’ loss, saying he, “forever changed our perspective of our planet and ourselves with his famous Earthrise photo on Apollo 8.

For a while, Bill Anders had high hopes of landing on the ... had a camera mounted in his window that took a photo every 20 seconds. Jim Lovell, the navigator, made sextant sightings from the ...