Former NASA astronaut William Anders was killed in a plane crash on Friday off the coast of Jones Island in San Juan County, Washington state, according to his family. He was 90 years old.

Former NASA Astronaut William "Bill" Anders was flying the plane that crashed in the waters of the San Juan Islands on Friday, his son, Greg, confirmed with KING 5. Greg Anders confirmed to KING 5 ...

This is the first Earthrise viewing by a human from lunar orbit. NASA is an American agency known for its space exploration and aeronautics research. Among its many endeavors, NASA has also created a ...

But NASA was different. Wives of astronauts had ... is why Apollo 8 was the only mission with intact marriages. Bill Anders: "We were working 18 hours a day. If I wasn't in the simulator I was ...

One of the first men to orbit the Moon has told BBC Radio 5 Live that it's "stupid" to plan manned missions to Mars. Bill Anders, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 8, the first manned spaceflight to ...

William Anders did not return to the moon, although he did take one of history's most famous photographs of the Earth rising over the lunar horizon. He left NASA to serve on a number of federal ...

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 ...

50 years ago this Christmas, three Nasa astronauts; Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first people to orbit the Moon. At the time, the Apollo 8 mission was hailed as the greatest ...