William Anders Quotes

United States, Engineer
October 17, 1933

William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933), is a retired United States Air Force Major general, former electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. He is known for being one of the first three persons to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon in Apollo 8 along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell as well as for photographing the iconic image, Earthrise. Apart from his professional and military careers, Anders was the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford.

Also known as Businessman, Pilot, Major General

We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.

William Anders
- Important
- Earth
- Way
Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.

William Anders
- Moon
- Green
- Cheese

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

William Anders
- Feelings
- Baseball
- Flying
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

William Anders
- Long
- Kids
- Airplane
It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.

William Anders
- Earth
- Study
- Moon
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the terrain. . . . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.

William Anders
- Thinking
- Black
- Dark