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Bill Anders, Apollo 8, augers in at 90

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One less lunar crew member, Bll Anders, has died in a solo plane crash 
in the San Juan Islands, Washington state.  Anders was lunar module 
pilot on Apollo 8 and took the Earthrise picture some people have seen.

Anders was also a Gemini crew member (backup pilot for XI and 
potentially on a XIII if Gemini had had another flight) and backup CMP 
for Apollo 11.

He left NASA for the NASC advising Nixon, and moved from there to the 
AEC/NRC before being Ambassador to Norway.  In the private sector, he 
did stints GE, Textron, and the board of General Dybnamics.

Some relevant links:
<URL:https://youtu.be/9zcOqW5CfFw?t=1331> by Scott Manley
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aDSMUh9N8> for more accident 
analysis.

KING5-TV has acquired the video of the final moments of the flight.

/dps

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of American professional basketball, like that you could have once 
watched a game between teams named the Indianapolis Kautskys and the 
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