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William Anders captured the iconic Earthrise showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968 when he and fellow astronauts became the first to orbit the Moon.
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders was on board the plane that crashed near Orcas Island Friday, family told KIRO 7 News.
His photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space
Awestruck, Anders snapped the timeless shot of the glorious blue and white planet rising over the horizon of the gray and lifeless moon, and "how tiny and fragile and precious and finite it is."
William Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age, was killed when his small plane went down off the coast of Washington state.