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'We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing that we discovered was the Earth.
'The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said the 90-year-old was flying a Beechcraft AA45, also known as a T-34.
The agency said that the plane crashed about 80 ft (25 m) from the coast of Jones Island.
'I could not believe what I was seeing in front of my eyes,' a person told the local news station.
'It looked like something right out of a movie or special effects, with the large explosion and flames and everything.
' Footage that allegedly captured the plane crash appears to show an effort to pull up at the last second, before it hit the surface of the water and became a fiery wreck.
Anders also served as the backup pilot to the Apollo 11 mission, which led to the first Moon landing on July 20, 1969.
Following Anders' retirement from the space program in 1969, the former astronaut largely worked in the aerospace industry for several decades.
He also served as US Ambassador to Norway for a year in the 1970s.
'In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give.
He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,' NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
In a previous interview, Anders described taking the picture after being given 'a little bit of photography training.
' He said: 'We were in lunar orbit, upside down and going backwards, so for the first several revolutions we did not see the Earth.
Then we twisted the spacecraft so it was going forward and suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw this color—it was shocking.
'Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, was among others to pay tribute to Anders, calling him 'an inspiration.
' Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who now serves as a US Senator for the state of Arizona, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Anders 'inspired me and generations of astronauts and explorers.
My thoughts are with his family and friends.
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