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.

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 ...

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 ...