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WASHINGTON, United States - William Anders , the former US astronaut who took the historic " Earthrise " photo from space over 55 years ago, died in a plane crash on Friday at the age of 90, his family said.Anders had been piloting a small plane that crashed off the coast of Washington state on Friday morning, his son told US media. Anders was alone in the plane.Sheriff Eric Peter told AFP that teams were searching the area, but had not yet found a body.
"In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give," NASA chief Bill Nelson wrote on social media platform X."He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him," Nelson added.
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