 Some restrictions apply. For complete details, please visit OptimaTaxRelief.com. We're learning more about last month's death of a man who circled the moon on Apollo 8. Astronaut William Anders, who died while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington State, was doing a flyby near a friend's house at the time. That's what a friend of Anders told federal investigators. She says Anders' flybys were not unusual and that he would sometimes rock the airplane's wing but never performed aerobatic maneuvers.