Bill Anders, one of the first people to fly to the moon as an Apollo 8 astronaut in 1968, died on Friday, June 7, when the vintage plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of the San Juan Islands northwest of Washington. Situation. In a statement to the media, it was confirmed by his… Read More »
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who was one of the first people to orbit the moon and took the iconic first photo of the Earth rising above the lunar surface, died Friday when a plane he was piloting crashed ashore near the San Juan Islands. Washington state. He was 90 years old. The Federal Aviation… Read More »
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of NASA’s 1968 Apollo 8 mission, has brought attention to this incredible first journey to the Moon. It was eight months before Apollo 11, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first explored the lunar surface. But the impact of Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” image (Earth as seen from the… Read More »