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San Diego remembers Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders
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William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.
Anders grew up in San Diego County and attended Grossmont High School.
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