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Astronaut William Anders, who made the incredible photo Earthrise, crashed his small plane and died
dreher
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yesterday at age 90. Talk about going out with "your boots on!"
At age 90, to go out doing what you love to do, how much better can it be!
I rate that as a life well lived!
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I have to wonder if it was intentional. Don
In the video, we see only the last few seconds, but it appeared to be the classic "Insufficient altitude to recover" from either a loop or a split-S maneuver. In other words, he started the maneuver too low.
From the video I watched........it looked like he ran out of altitude, at the bottom of an inside loop.
One of the greatest generation........R.I.P. sir.😔
The "Earthrise" photo he took during Apollo 8 has been rated the single most important photo ever taken because it was the first time humans saw their beautiful, delicate, blue home in space.
This man did so much. It’s incredible really. Any one of these things would be a lifetime achievement.
Fighter pilot - check
Astronaut- check
Commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -check
Ambassador to Norway - check
Executive Secretary for NASA -check
CEO of General Dynamics - check
And I’m sure the list goes on.
He took a pretty amazing pic too!
I was wondering the same thing Don
I wondered about the same thing as I was writing this post.
Being 90 is not young to be a pilot. Anything could have happened.
A man doesn't live his life like that and then off himself ………………….
I thought maybe is was distracted driving, texting or at age 90 went to sleep at the wheel.