The far side of the Moon turned out to be less dramatic than he expected, but when he described the Earthrise, Anders tapped into an awe that was undiminished by the passage of nearly two decades.

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was ...

On Christmas Eve in 1968, the three astronauts on Apollo 8 looked back toward home as their craft made one of its 10 orbits around the moon. Framed inside the window was the marbled blue orb of ...

It partly was a matter of luck that Anders got the shot – as he was the one of the three astronauts onboard that was holding the camera loaded with color film, and fitted with a telephoto lens ...

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when ...

“Earthrise” by Jon Ramer reimagines “Earthrise” by Bill Anders (right). Ramer’s “dot art,” a style he learned from aboriginal Australians, is acrylic on gessoed masonite. Former ...

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic ''Earthrise'' photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend ...

Ever since we broke the bonds of gravity and ventured outside Earth's atmosphere, we have been traveling on a journey with ...

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo of our planet as seen from lunar orbit, died today in a plane crash in waters off the San… Read More Catch every ...

Now 55 years old, the former NASA astronaut’s outlook on space travel mirrors fellow former astronaut William Anders, who shot the famous Earthrise photograph of our planet on the Apollo 8 mission.