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William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous "Earthrise" photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water north of Seattle, according to NASA, local officials and his family.

The image has been called one of the greatest ever taken in space

Anders' photo of a blue Earth rising over the barren surface of the moon become an icon of the environmental movement.

Maj. Gen. Bill Anders, 90, was a member of the Apollo 8 space mission, which was the first crew to reach the moon in 1968. He died June 7 in a plane crash in WA.

William Anders, the former US astronaut who took the historic "Earthrise" photo from space over 55 years ago, died in a plane crash on Friday at the age of 90,

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Bill Anders, a Washington resident and former NASA Apollo astronaut, was a household name in the late 1960s. He was born 90 years ago on this day - October 17th, 1933

William "Bill" Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous "Earthrise" photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water north of Seattle.

Bill Anders, a Washington resident and former NASA Apollo astronaut, was a household name in the late 1960s. He was born 90 years ago on this day - October 17th, 1933

Former NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who was the first to photograph the Earth in color from space while serving on NASA's Apollo 8 mission, died June 7 in a plane crash.