Astronaut William Anders who captured iconic 'Earthrise' image dies in plane crash
The 90-year-old former astronaut who took one of the most famous pictures of all time in a daring mission to orbit the moon has died. The plane he was piloting crashed into waters.
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We were staying with my father's parents for Christmas in 1968, on their farm in the Rift Valley. There was no mains electricity, and certainly no television, but there was a large battery-powered valve receiver on a table in the living room, and we listened to a live radio broadcast of the re-entry of Apollo 8, with the tensest part of the broadcast being the brief period when the plasma around the capsule prevented radio communication between crew and mission control.