Willem Anders

obituary of Willem Anders

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It may be that the most famous photo from the American space program is not the shot of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, but the image of the Earth seen above the moon’s horizon, an image taken from space on December 24, 1968. the crew was passed on. of Apollo 8 – Frank Borman, … Read more

William Anders, astronaut on the first lunar orbit mission that photographed ‘Earthrise’ – obituary

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William Anders, who has died aged 90, was an American astronaut who flew on what is often considered NASA’s most daring space mission; as a crew member of Apollo 8, he became one of the first three men to travel to the moon, where they spent a day in orbit and captured humanity’s first close-up … Read more