Astronaut William Anders dead at 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, 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.
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In 1990, the San Diego Air & Space Museum inducted Anders into its International Air & Space Hall of Fame. A portrait of Anders can be found in the museum’s Space Gallery. Anders graduated from the Naval Academy in 1955 and served as a fighter pilot in the Air Force. He later served on the Atomic Energy Commission, as the U.S. chairman of the joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. technology exchange program for nuclear fission and fusion power, and as ambassador to Norway. He later worked for General Electric and General Dynamics, according to his NASA biography

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DIRECTORS, I CALLED MY PARENTS

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Is that Kathleen Bade?

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Suicide?

[@ComicMelon]

Looks like he overestimated his altitude, it was a vintage plane. So he slammed the water too steep.

[@todlove1551]

Hear me out. Should someone age 90 be flying a plane, much less doing stunts? serious question. Good thing he didnt take out any other citizens.

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Keep your negativity to yourself! You have no right to judge this man! He did more than you ever will!

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​@davidsaldivar4302 It's funny you just judge him , nice try.

[@markdavert3063]

No way Should he be flying at 90 years old .

[@Wban23]

Faked it

[@chrisjackson1215]

And what makes you say that? PLEASE let us in on the crazy.

[@luchagain3424]

Sort yourself out.

[@luchagain3424]

@@chrisjackson1215he’s not crazy. either he doesn’t have the skills to understand basic science or he was bullied growing up and now he wants to feel like he’s a part of something. So these comments were leaving is a source of attention.

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@@luchagain3424 its over your 🍅 head