William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew who were the first three people to orbit the moon, has died in a plane crash in Washington state, according to his son, Gregory ...

First Nuclear Regulatory Commission members meet with President Gerald Ford in the Oval Office. Clockwise sitting, Richard T. Kennedy, Marcus A. Rowden, William Anders (Chairman), Ford, Victor ...

June 8 (UPI) --William Anders, among the first three people to orbit the moon aboard Apollo 8 in 1968, died when his small plane crashed in Washington state, according to his son, Gregory Anders. He ...

William Anders, a former Apollo 8 astronaut, is dead at 90. William's son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed his death to the Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” he told the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — 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 plane he ...

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 ...

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 plane he was ...