Apollo 8 'Earthrise' Photographer Astronaut Bill Anders Dies In Plane Crash
Bill Ander's photography of the Earth as it rose from behind the Moon was the first to display our planet in color suspended against the vast darkness of space, an historic moment memorialized as "Earthrise."
Credit: Bill Anders/NASA
Former NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who was the first to photograph the Earth in color from space while serving as the lunar module pilot for NASA's Apollo 8 mission, died June 7 in a plane crash in the waters off the San Juan Islands near Seattle. Anders, 90, was alone onboard the Beechcraft T-34...
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