Retired astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, has been identified as the pilot inside the plane that crashed in the waters off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon.

Watch: Apollo 8 crew's Genesis reading The full audio of Apollo 8's Christmas Eve message. NASA produced this video some years later, adding video footage from multiple Apollo missions.

William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut who shot ‘Earthrise,’ dies at 90 As part of the first crewed mission to orbit the moon, he looked toward home and took one of the most famous photos of all time.

Retired astronaut William Anders, who was one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, capturing the famed "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968, died on Friday in the crash ...

The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, their spacecraft safely splashing down in the northern Pacific. All three crew members were named Time magazine's "Men of the Year." ...

Apollo 8 launched from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida on December 21, 1968. It was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth’s gravitational sphere of influence and also the first ...

Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8? The mission returned to Earth with one of the most famous images in history ...

Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders photographed "Earthrise" on December 24, 1968. It made Earth look small and fragile.

Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders captured the iconic and revolutionary photograph "Earthrise" while orbiting the Moon.

The rising Earth looms above the lunar horizon in this telephoto view taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. For years, space historians have debated who took this picture. The book "Genesis ...

Jim Lovell recounts when the Apollo 8 crew closed its Christmas Eve television broadcast with the opening verses from the Book of Genesis.