Islands. William Alison Anders was born in Hong Kong on 17 October 1933, the son of Arthur F. Anders, a United States Navy lieutenant, and his wife,...
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Jim Lovell (section Awards and decorations)
aviator, test pilot and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he became, with Frank Borman and William Anders, one of the first...
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Danish version. Anders Aarum (born 1974), Norwegian jazz pianist Anders Aalborg (1914–2000), Canadian teacher and politician Anders Ahlgren (1888–1976)...
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tiny crater on the eastern wall. Anders crater is named after the American astronaut William Anders. In 1968, Anders and his Apollo 8 crewmates became the...
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Earthrise (category William Anders)
by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon. One account suggests that before Anders found a suitable...
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Apollo 8 (category William Anders)
and William Anders—were the first humans to see and photograph the far side of the Moon and an Earthrise. Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, and...
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completion of Apollo 7. Gemini veterans Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, and rookie William Anders captured the world's attention by making ten lunar orbits...
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first three groups, only Collins and his third group colleague William Anders were born outside the United States, and Collins was the only one with an...
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Frank Borman (section Early life and education)
fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 24 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional...
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Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish artist who attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist...
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Christmas Eve (category Nativity of Jesus in worship and liturgy)
television broadcast to that date, the Apollo 8 astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman surprised the world with a reading of the Creation...
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Time Person of the Year (section Groups and non-humans)
and Soong Mei-ling, president and first lady of China (1937) William Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell, crew of Apollo 8 (1968) Richard Nixon and Henry...
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Apollo 11 (section Launch and flight to lunar orbit)
of Lovell as Commander, William Anders as CMP, and Haise as LMP. Anders had flown with Lovell on Apollo 8. In early 1969, Anders accepted a job with the...
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Apollo 8 Genesis reading (category William Anders)
astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman recited verses 1 through 10 of the Genesis creation narrative from the King James Bible. Anders read verses...
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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) (category William Anders)
Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks and Michael Bostick. In docudrama format, it tells the story of the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 1970s. Largely based...
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named after the other crew members, Frank Borman (Borman crater) and William Anders (Anders crater). By convention these features are identified on lunar...
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Gaia hypothesis (category Words and phrases derived from Greek mythology)
Earth looked as a whole. The photograph Earthrise taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission became, through the Overview Effect...
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powerful as any in history will be let loose". After Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders' December 1968 Earthrise photograph of the Earth from lunar orbit, the...
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Retrieved 24 July 2011. Breivik, Anders Behring (23 July 2011). "Anders Behring Breiviks kommentarer hos Document.no" [Anders Behring Breivik's comments at...
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and released as early as 1967, and is the second time such a photo was taken by a person after the 1968 photograph Earthrise taken by William Anders of...
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missing conjuncts instead of Tamil script. Andal (ISO 15919: Āṇḍāḷ), also known as Godhai, Nachiyar, and Godhadevi, was the only female Alvar among the...
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to break out of Earth's orbit, and the three American astronauts on board — Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders — went further from Earth than...
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astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, flew their command and service module beyond low Earth orbit and completed ten orbits of the Moon...
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Borman and his Apollo 8 crewmates became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Two nearby craters are named after the other crew members, William Anders (Anders...
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Apollo 1 (section Spacecraft and crew preparation)
CSM and LM together on a Saturn V (AS-503) to an elliptical medium Earth orbit (MEO), to be crewed by Frank Borman, Michael Collins and William Anders. McDivitt...
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Haise was prospectively slated to command Apollo 19 with William R. Pogue as Command Module Pilot and Gerald P. Carr as Lunar Module Pilot. However, the mission...
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General Anders may refer to: Carl Anders (1893–1972), German Wehrmacht major general William Anders (born 1933), U.S. Air Force major general Władysław...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. The program used the Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicles...
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First to the Moon: The Journey of Apollo 8 (category William Anders)
documentary discloses that the famed Earthrise photograph captured by Bill Anders was unplanned. On Rotten Tomatoes, First to the Moon scored a 100% on based...
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Neil Armstrong (category Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni)
the systems and took on a teaching role for the rookie backup pilot, William Anders. The launch was on September 12, 1966, with Conrad and Gordon on board...
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