Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. William Anders, whose iconic photograph of the Earth rising over the moon as seen from aboard Apollo 8 in 1968 awakened the world to humanity’s place in the cosmos, died June 7 when the Beechcraft T–34 Mentor he was flying hit the water not far from his home in Washington state. He was 90.
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