ASTRONAUT WILLIAM ANDERS PASSES AWAY AT THE AGE OF 90

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”, passed away on Friday, June 7, 2024, “when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state”, in a fiery crash.