William Alison Anders (born the October 17th 1933) is old a Astronaute of NASA.

Biography

Anders was born with HongKong and was graduate United States Naval Academy in 1955 then in nuclear engineering with the Air Force Institute off Technology of the base of Wright-Patterson (Ohio) in 1962. It reached the rank of “Major-General” (Major general in France) in USAF

Activities with NASA

In 1964, Anders was selected as astronaut by NASA. He worked in the fields of dosimetry, the effects of the environmental radiations and aspects. He was pilot replacing mission Gemini XI, then member of the mission Apollo 8 which was the first in lunar orbit in December 1968 and was replacing mission Apollo 11.

Career

He was named in 1973 president of the American delegation in the American-Russian programme of exchange on the fission and the nuclear Fusion, then named, by the president Gerald Ford, first president of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission , and finally ambassador of Norway.

He joined then General Electric in 1977, qu ' he left in 1984 for the group Textron , then, in 1990, he joined General Dynamics. It took its retirement in 1994.

External bonds

• Summarized flight carried out

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