Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders was killed when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
Retired Maj. Gen. 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 piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90. His son, Greg Anders, confirmed the death to CBS News, saying that the plane which crashed belonged to his father.
He logged more than 6,000 hours flying time, according to his NASA biography, serving as a backup pilot on the Gemini XI and Apollo 11 flights, and as a lunar module pilot for Apollo 8. Anders said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program, given the ecological philosophical impact it had, along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.
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