Happy Birthday to Apollo 8 LMP, Bill Anders, who would've turned 92 today. He died back in the summer of '24, about 100 miles north of Vashon. Here's how he ended up in our neck of the woods, according to his NASA oral history interview back when he was a spry 64:
Anders: My father had been a naval officer and was stationed in Bremerton [WA] when I was four. And so I never remembered [it] raining, I remember nothing but all the blackberries you could eat and all the garter snakes a four year old could catch. … I went to check that out forty years later and found that it really wasn’t that great but my wife and I went up to the San Juan Islands and found that it really was nice. So we bought property and fantasized … about it for years and eventually bought a home up there and that’s where we live…
Anders was one of my faves. It was a weird synchronicity hearing about his plane crash because literally not a couple days prior, I watched an Apollo 8 documentary, and a story he told about when he was a kid and got a ride with a barnstormer particularly stuck out for me.
Anyway, that's all I've got today. May your skies be clear and smooth...
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