50 years ago on December 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronaut crew captured one of the most iconic color images of the space age. The three men — Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman — were the first ...

Super-Short Summary: Astronaut William Anders, who died last week, captured the famous “Earthrise” photo during Apollo 8. The photo hung in the Oval Office for awhile but was removed in 1970 as public ...

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders held many titles in his life. He was, of course, an astronaut, but also an Air Force pilot, engineer, museum co-founder, U.S. ambassador, and more. People might not ...

His Earthrise photo is a pillar of today's environmental movement. It remains a legacy of Apollo and humanity's achievement, said professor emeritus John Logsdon of George Washington University's ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Two of the craters seen in Apollo 8 astronaut William "Bill" Anders' iconic "Earthrise" photo ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

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