SEATTLE -- 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 ...

American astronaut William Anders — who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew — was killed while piloting a plane that crashed off the Washington coast Friday, according to a report. He was 90. “The ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. – When a Saturn rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center half a century ago, it carried three astronauts and a lunar lander to take two of them to the moon's surface. On board ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut, was killed on Friday, June 7, after the plane he was piloting crashed into the ocean off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He ...