{"id":157478,"date":"2024-06-08T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157478"},"modified":"2024-06-08T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T13:42:46","slug":"bill-anders-apollo-8-astronaut-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157478","title":{"rendered":"Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William “Bill” Anders in 1964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bill Anders, a retired USAF major general, retired NASA Astronaut, and the taker of one of the most famous photographs of all time has sadly died. Not exactly in the way usually reserved for men who are 90. Anders went out in a plane crash while flying a T-34 Mentor warbird over the San Juan Islands in Washington State yesterday. Witnesses report the aircraft diving steeply into the water, catching fire, and then sinking.<\/p>\n

Anders had only a single space mission, but what a mission it was. He was Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) on Apollo 8. This was the Christmastime 1968 first flight to (and around) the moon. He was thus one of three of the first men to see the far side of the Moon. While there, they read Genesis to Earth in a widely heard radio broadcast.<\/p>\n

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Since Apollo 8 didn’t have a Lunar Module attached, one of Anders’ jobs was to be the photographer. As such, he took the “Earthrise” photo (above), and also was the likely photographer of the first image taken by anyone of the whole Earth disk<\/a>. It’s been said that these photos contain all but three people alive or that had ever existed.<\/p>\n

Anders had more than 8,000 hours logged as a pilot, and impressively still maintained that status into his 10th decade on Earth. The crash investigation will likely determine whether there was a failure with the aircraft of if Anders had a medical issue prior to the uncontrolled departure from controlled flight. Anders went out with his boots on, as they say, or he died while soaring with the eagles in a vintage warbird. Either is a fitting end for a heroic American trailblazer and explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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