Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders dies in plane crash at 90

William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon and took the famous “Earthrise” photo died after a small plane he was in crashed in the water near the San Juan islands in Washington State, his family says. KING’s Eric Wilkinson reports. Warning: Story contains plane crash video which some viewers may find disturbing.

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