Maj. Anders was first: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” William Alison Anders was ...

Former NASA astronaut William Anders was killed in a plane crash on Friday off the coast of Jones Island in San Juan County, Washington state, according to his family. He was 90 years old.

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 ...