Friday Reads

 There are perhaps fewer things worse than religious courts.

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Obituary:  William Anders, an astronaut on Apollo 8 and best remembered for taking one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century, "Earthrise," has died in a small plane crash.  He was the pilot of the plane, which crashed in Washington.  He was 90.

I have a print of his famous photo.  It is framed and matted.

Snip:

Anders was born on October 17, 1933, in Hong Kong, according to the New Mexico Museum of Space History, where he was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983. At the time, his father was a Navy lieutenant aboard the USS Panay, which was a U.S. gunboat in China’s Yangtze River. Anders and his mother fled during the 1937 Japanese attack on Nanjing.

Anders and his wife, Valerie, founded the Heritage Flight Museum in Washington state in 1996. It is now based at a regional airport in Burlington, and features 15 aircrafts, several antique military vehicles, a library and many artifacts donated by veterans, according to the museum’s website. Two of his sons helped him run it.

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