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Apollo 8 astronaut, William Anders, passes in a plane crash. He was the person to take the iconic “Earth rising” photo in 1968


William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the Apollo 8 crew who became the first three people to circle the moon, has died in a plane crash.

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