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Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. D2757-26
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. D2757-26
William AndersUnited States, born 1933

Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council (1969-1973)

U.S. Ambassador to Norway (1976–1977)

General Manager of the Nuclear Products Division of General Electric Company (1977–1980)

General Manager of the Aircraft Equipment Division of General Electric (1980–1984)

Textron Vice-President (1984–1990)

General Dynamics CEO (1990–1994)

William Alison Anders is a former United States Air Force officer, electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. Anders, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, is one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under then President Gerald Ford's administration.

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