According to information from the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight tracking system and records, the crashed plane was an old Air Force T-34 Mentor that was in Anders’ possession, FOX 13 Seattle reports. Information that he was at the plane’s control center during the accident appeared in several posts on social media and in messages from friends.
Anders was born on October 17, 1933 in Hong Kong, and grew up in San Diego. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1955 and earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1962. In 1979, he completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
In 1964, Anders was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as an astronaut, responsible for dosimetry, radiation effects, and environmental control. He was a backup pilot on Gemini XI and Apollo 11, and a lunar module pilot on Apollo 8.
The famous Earthrise photo taken by Anders
During the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, Anders, along with Air Force veteran Frank F. Borman II and Navy veteran James A. Lovell Jr., over 6,000 hours. time. Up in the air. Their command module flew over the moon’s surface, and the astronauts sent back images of the moon and Earth and took turns reading from the Book of Genesis, ending with everyone’s wish “on the good Earth.”
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