William Anders had said taking the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program.
Anders was killed on Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington. His photograph, the first colour image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for how it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement by showing how delicate and isolated the Earth appeared from space.
" — NASA Administrator and former senator Bill Nelson wrote on the social platform X. The Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 was the first human spaceflight to leave low-Earth orbit and travel to the moon and back. It was NASA's boldest and perhaps most dangerous voyage yet. Anders snapped the photo during the crew's fourth orbit of the moon, frantically switching from black-and-white to colour film. He was born on 17 October 1933, in Hong Kong.
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