Retired Maj. Gen. William 'Bill' Anders was killed in a plane crash near the coast of Jones Island in San Juan County Friday morning, his son confirmed to KOMO.
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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 the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.