obituary of Willem Anders

It may be that the most famous photo from the American space program is not the shot of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, but the image of the Earth seen above the moon's horizon, an image taken from space on December 24, 1968. the crew was passed on. of Apollo 8 - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.

It was Anders, who has died aged 90, who took the 'Earthrise' photo, which was not part of the mission's planned protocol. And it was he who first read from the Book of Genesis during their live broadcast from lunar ...