June 8, 2024: William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew who were the first three people to orbit the moon, has died in a plane crash in Washington state, He was 90 years old. FILE PHOTO: June 26, 2013 - Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, who took this iconic earthrise photo. Credit: NASA/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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• Date taken: 8 June 2024
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