{"id":783726,"date":"2024-06-07T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T00:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783726"},"modified":"2024-06-07T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T00:17:53","slug":"apollo-8-astronaut-bill-anders-who-took-famed-earthrise-photo-dies-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783726","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders who took famed Earthrise photo dies : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n This picture, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, is one of the most famous images ever photographed in space. It shows the earth rising against the barren lunar landscape on the first human mission to the moon in 1968. \n <\/p>\n
This picture, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, is one of the most famous images ever photographed in space. It shows the earth rising against the barren lunar landscape on the first human mission to the moon in 1968.<\/p>\n
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Apollo astronaut Bill Anders, who captured one of the most famous images ever recorded in space, has died at age 90.<\/p>\n
His son, Greg Anders, told NPR his dad died Friday in a plane crash in Washington state. He was piloting the Beech A45 when it crashed into the water off Jones Island. The National Transportation Safety Board says it’s investigating the crash.<\/p>\n
“Our family is devastated. He was a great man and a great pilot,” he told NPR.<\/p>\n
In a statement on X, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Bill Anders “offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him.”<\/p>\n
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