Maj. William Anders, a member of the Apollo 8 “Genesis Flight” crew, which successfully completed the first manned space mission to orbit the moon in 1968, died on Friday at the age of 90 in an ...
June 7 (Reuters) - Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on ...
In late December 1968, the Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to leave Earth and journey to another world. They spent 20 hours orbiting the Moon, and ...