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  William Anders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William A. Anders (born October 17, 1933) former National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut.
Anders was born in Hong Kong and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1955 and a master of science degree in nuclear engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in 1962.
Anders was not first choice for the Apollo 8 crew replacing the ill Michael Collins but during the mission he took a photograph of Earthrise that has became one of the most celebrated of the US space programme.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Anders   (620 words)

  
 William Anders
Anders was commissioned in the Air Force after graduation from the Naval Academy and served as a fighter pilot in all-weather interception squadrons of the Air Defense Command and later was responsible for technical management of nuclear power reactor shielding and radiation effects programs while at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico.
In 1964, Anders was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an astronaut with responsibilities for dosimetry, radiation effects and environmental controls.
Anders left the federal government after 26 years of service and after briefly serving as a Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute he joined the General Electric Company in September 1977 as Vice President and General Manager of the Nuclear Products Division in San Jose, California.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_anders.html   (678 words)

  
 Bill Anders
Anders was born in Hong Kong on October 17,1933, the son of an American Naval officer on the Yangtze River Patrol.
In 1973, the President appointed Anders to the Atomic Energy Commission, where he was made commissioner responsible for all civilian and military nuclear power R and D. With the breakup of the AEC, he was made the first chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anders, who has over 7000 hours of flying time in fighter-type aircraft and helicopters, is still logging 300-400 hours per year as an F AA commercial pilot with single and multi engine land and sea, helicopter and instrument ratings and has recently soloed in gliders.
www.space-explorers.org /bios/anders.html   (961 words)

  
 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: William A. Anders
William A. Anders was a member of the first crew of astronauts to break away from Earth's gravity to orbit the moon on the Apollo 8 mission at Christmas-time 1968.
Anders left NASA after that mission and from 1969 to 1973 he served as executive secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
Anders left the federal government after 26 years service in 1977 and assumed a series of management positions with the General Electric Company and Textron, Inc. He later was chairman and CEO of the General Dynamics Corporation before retiring in 1996.
www.astronautscholarship.org /anders.html   (442 words)

  
 New River Notes - 1870 Federal Census for Grayson County - Elk Creek District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Anders, Alfred 35 Farm Laborer 200 Jane 32 Friel 15 Houston 13 John 11 Kenny 8 Alex 6 Gillie 3 Phoebe 7/12 (B. Nov. 1869) Jefferson 24 Farm Laborer [This was family 1432 in the 1860 Grayson Co., VA Census.
Anders, Thomas 57 Farmer 800 NC Sally 57 NC Henry 20 Abraham 16 Farm Laborer Elbert 14 Farm Laborer Peggy A. [This was family 988 in the 1850 Grayson Co., VA Census.
William McKinley Boyer left Grayson County for "the west." This was family 169 in the 1860 Grayson Co., VA Census.
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 William Andrews, Jr. (1792-1870)
William and Abi are buried at the William Andrews Cemetery located on Road 1428, 1 mile south of Zion Church in Alleghany Co., NC.
William and Aby Andrews are buried in a family cemetery on Road 1428 in Alleghany Co., NC, about 5 miles east of Sparta, and 1 mile south of Zion Church.
ANDERS, 50 acres improved land, $150 acres unimproved land, value of farm $600, value of farm implements $25, 2 horses, 0 asses/mules, 2 milch cows, 0 working oxen, 1 other cattle, 6 sheep, 40 swine, value of livestock $330.
www.moonzstuff.com /Cheek/AndrewsWilliamJr.html   (387 words)

  
 Anders
Anders left NASA after the Apollo 11 mission and served as executive secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council from 1969 to 1973.
Anders left the federal government after 26 years of service in 1977 and assumed a series of management positions with the General Electric Company.
The crew assigned to the E mission (Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William Anders) would be reassigned to the C prime mission.
www.astronautix.com /astros/anders.htm   (2787 words)

  
 1999 National Championship Air Races - Bill Anders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Anders, one of several astronauts to serve as grand marshal at the 1999 National Championship Air Races (NCAR) in Reno, Sept. 16 through 19 and will also be competing as an Unlimited Class pilot.
In 1968, Anders was one of the first astronauts to orbit the moon on Apollo 8.
Born Oct. 17, 1933 in Hong Kong, Anders graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1955 and after graduation was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force, serving as a fighter pilot.
www.nevadanet.com /airraces/billanders.html   (407 words)

  
 William Anders -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was later was responsible for technical management of nuclear power reactor shielding and radiation effects programs while at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in (A state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border) New Mexico.
In 1964, Anders was selected by (An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight) NASA as an astronaut with responsibilities for (Measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source) dosimetry, radiation effects and environmental controls.
Anders briefly served as a fellow of the (Click link for more info and facts about American Enterprise Institute) American Enterprise Institute, then joined (Click link for more info and facts about General Electric) General Electric in September 1977.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_anders.htm   (433 words)

  
 CBSNews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in 1933 in Hong Kong to a military family, Anders attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis and became an Air Force major.
Anders became systems engineer on the Apollo 8 mission, which was the first manned flight to the moon.
Anders was set to pilot and land a lunar module that was supposed to be part of the Apollo 8 mission, but due to development problems, that part of the mission was put on hold.
www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/space/astronauts/whois_anders.html   (162 words)

  
 anders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Anders was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on October 4, 1997.
Borman, Lovell and Anders orbited the moon on Christmas Eve and captivated a television audience of millions by beaming pictures of the rugged lunar surface while reading from the Bible's Book of Genesis.
Borman, Lovell and Bill Anders were the first humans launched toward the moon and the first to ride the mammoth Saturn V rocket.
www.geocities.com /fdocc/anders.htm   (1004 words)

  
 School Prayer + Günther Anders + William Osler
Taking this literally, he adopted the name Anders — which means "different." Anders fled Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933, then to the United States in 1936.
Anders co-founded the European anti-nuclear movement in 1954.
In 1956 Anders published his magnum opus, The Antiquatedness of Humanity, including "The Bomb and the Roots of Our Blindness toward the Apocalypse." Although his outlook for humanity was bleak, it was also conspicuously godless.
www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0712b-almanac.htm   (400 words)

  
 Schwerman Trucking Co., Case 9-CA-35925
Also on April 13, as he had in past years, Anders told Fleming that a union campaign had resurfaced at the terminal and Anders told Fleming that he was still antiunion.
Anders learned of his loss of the safety engineer job after April 13 when he noticed a lesser amount in his paycheck.
Turning to Anders’ April 24, 1998 termination, the General Counsel alleges that Anders’ April 21 prounion conversion, and disclosure thereof to Terry LaCasse, was the reason for LaCasse’s decision to fire Anders.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/328/328-137.htm   (3166 words)

  
 law.com - Decision
At trial, Waller testified that when he met with Anders at a restaurant to discuss the evaluation on the form, he could only recall that Anders conveyed Ziesmer was a poor performer and that Ziesmer's attendance was somewhat poor.
Because we find that the evidence supports the conclusion that Pruitt and Anders committed defamation per se, we conclude that the award of damages for injury to reputation, mental anguish, shame, and humiliation were not excessive but were within the jury's discretion.
Lastly, appellants argue that the sheer amount of the verdict against Pruitt ($250,000 versus $100,000 for Anders), when viewed against the evidence in the record, establishes that the verdict on exemplary damages was the result of passion or prejudice in the jury and not the evidence.
www.law.com /jsp/decisionstate.jsp?id=1024078923199   (8827 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Indeed, Anders would participate in the ultimate adventure, becoming one of the first three human beings to see the far side of the moon.
Astronaut Anders fell to his work with characteristic dedication and focus, working late in the simulators and returning home to his family on weekends.
Anders retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1988 at the rank of major general.
www.nationalaviation.org /website/index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=440   (1362 words)

  
 The Earthrise Photograph
The famous photograph that was taken in the next two minutes is usually credited to crewman William Anders, although commander Frank Borman has always claimed that he took it.
But William Anders framed his photographs from the perspective of being in orbit about the lunar equator.
This meant he framed it so the edge of the Moon was vertical, with planet Earth a little to the left but with its North and South poles aligned the same way as the North and South poles of the Moon.
www.abc.net.au /science/moon/earthrise.htm   (622 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: William Anders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jump to: navigation, search October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar.
Jump to: navigation, search 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar).
Textron (NYSE: TXT) is a major US based conglomerate, who, unlike most other conglomerates, remains fairly large today after the glory years in the 1960s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Anders   (1866 words)

  
 William A. Anders --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
U.S. nuclear energy official, born William Alison Anders in Hong Kong; NASA astronaut 1963–69; executive secretary National Aeronautics and Space Council 1969–73; on Atomic Energy Commission 1973–75; chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1975–76; former ambassador to Norway.
For these efforts he received the highest awards of the geographical societies of Europe, was made a Swedish nobleman, and was named honorary knight commander of the Indian Empire.
William Harvey's studies were the beginnings of the science of physiology.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9316285?tocId=9316285   (754 words)

  
 William A. Anders
In 1955, William Anders received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy.
NASA selected William Anders as an astronaut in October of 1963.
Anders was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 8.
home.comcast.net /~bfmuldrake/anders.html   (1140 words)

  
 Anders, William Alison (1933-)
American astronaut, selected with the third group of astronauts in 1963, who served as backup pilot for Gemini 11 and Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 8.
Although a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Anders was a career Air Force officer.
He resigned from NASA and active duty in the Air Force in September 1969 to become Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/Anders.html   (184 words)

  
 Anders Cemetery
The present drive is from the West end of the cemetery.
However, it appears that it was originally approaced from the East as there is the remains of an old road and the Anders still live at the bottom of the hill in that direction.
It is a duplication of the listing for Jane Anders (Which should have been listed as Jane L. Anders).
www.rootsquest.com /~alextree/cemetery/anders.html   (299 words)

  
 Hexham; Cemetery Index Frame
Wife of William (1); mthr of John (4), Jemima (6) & Walter (9).
Eldest dghtr of William (1) & Helen (2).
Youngest son of William (1) & Helen (2).
members.datafast.net.au /~marrtronics/HEXHAM1.HTM   (633 words)

  
 100 Photographs that Changed the World by Life - The Digital Journalist
The late adventure photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” Captured on Christmas Eve, 1968, near the end of one of the most tumultuous years the U.S. had ever known, the Earthrise photograph inspired contemplation of our fragile existence and our place in the cosmos.
For years, Frank Borman and Bill Anders of the Apollo 8 mission each thought that he was the one who took the picture.
An investigation of two rolls of film seemed to prove Borman had taken an earlier, fl-and-white frame, and the iconic color photograph, which later graced a U.S. postage stamp and several book covers, was by Anders.
www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0309/lm11.html   (129 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - Obituaries
William S. Anders, 73, of 50 South Bates Road, passed away July 19, 2005, at Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital.
A native of Greenville County, he was a son of the late Grover Layton and Grace Taylor Anders, a member of Double Springs Baptist Church and was a retired employee of Springs Industries, Lyman.
He was predeceased by brothers, Clyde Anders, Edward Anders, James Anders, and Walter Anders.
news.greenvilleonline.com /obits/obits.php?content=obittext&searchdate=2005-07-20   (2760 words)

  
 SpaceArchive.net | 68-H-1347 - William Anders seen in White Room before launch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Anders seen in White Room before launch
In the White Room, 320 feet above the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, a member of the close-out crew appears to be giving William Anders final instructions before he enters spacecraft, rear, with commander Frank Borman and Command Module pilot James Lovell.
They were launched by a Saturn V rocket at 7:51 a.m., EST, December 21, 1968, on NASA's first manned lunar voyage.
www.spacearchive.net /pages/68-H-1347.html   (103 words)

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