Title: William Anders
Content:  William Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force major general, former electrical engineer, nuclear engineer, NASA astronaut, and businessman. In December 1968, as a crew member of Apollo 8, he was one of the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon. Along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, Anders circled the Moon ten times, and broadcast live images and commentary back to Earth. During one of the mission's lunar orbits he photographed the iconic image Earthrise. Apart from his professional and military careers, Anders was the U.S. Ambassador to Norway from 1976 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. In 1984, Anders was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for significant contributions to nuclear engineering, space exploration and research, and the development of national nuclear, aeronautical, and space policy.
Title: William Anders
Content:  by President Ford to become the first chairman of the newly established Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is responsible for nuclear safety and environmental compatibility. At the completion of his term as NRC chairman, he was appointed Ambassador to Norway and held that position until 1977. He then ended his career with the federal government after 26 years and began work in the private sector. Anders served briefly as a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, then joined General Electric (GE) in September 1977. As vice president and general manager of GE's Nuclear Products Division in San Jose, California, he was responsible for the manufacture of 
Title: William Anders
Content:  From 1969 to 1973, Anders served as executive secretary for the National Aeronautics and Space Council, which was responsible to the president, vice president and Cabinet-level members of the council for developing policy options concerning research, development, operations and planning of aeronautical and space systems. On August 6, 1973, Anders was appointed to the five-member Atomic Energy Commission, where he was lead commissioner for nuclear and non-nuclear power research and development. He was also named as U.S. Chairman of the joint U.S./USSR technology exchange program for fission and fusion power. Following the reorganization of national nuclear regulatory and developmental activities on January 19, 1975, Anders was 
Title: William Anders
Content:  and data processing systems, electronic countermeasures, space command systems, and aircraft/surface multi-barrel armament systems. In 1984, Anders left GE to join Textron as executive vice president for aerospace, and two years later became senior executive vice president for operations. In 1990, he became vice chairman of General Dynamics, and on January 1, 1991, its chairman and chief executive officer. He retired in 1993, but remained chairman until May 1994. Anders was a consultant to the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, and was a member of the Defense Science Board and the NASA Advisory Council. He is a retired major general in the USAF 
Title: Sivert Andreas Nielsen (1916–2004)
Content:  After the war he served as a diplomat to the United Nations from 1946 to 1948 and to the United States from 1948 to 1950. Among others, he helped shape and write the North Atlantic Treaty which was ratified in 1949. He then worked in the Ministry of Defence, as assistant secretary from 1950, deputy under-secretary of state from 1952 and State Secretary from 1955 to 1958. In the latter position he was a part of the third cabinet Gerhardsen; however he was not a member of the Norwegian Labour Party. In his time it was speculated that he was offered a government minister position, but this never happened. From 1958 to 1966 he returned as Norwegian ambassador to the United Nations. During this period, Norway was a member of the Security Council in 1963 and 1964. From 1966 to 1976 he worked as a banker. He was also the chair of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1969 to 1974. He was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1964, and died in March 2004 in Oslo.
Title: Arne Arnesen
Content:  in Norway he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1966 to 1971, then leader of the minister's secretariat. After a short stint in the newspaper Arbeiderbladet in 1973 he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1975. He was then the director of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation from 1975 to 1982, Norway's ambassador to China from 1982 to 1987, State Secretary in the Ministry of Development Cooperation from 1987 to 1989 and ambassador to Denmark from 1990 to 1996. He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry in 1976 and the Order of the Dannebrog, and was a Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He died in December 2010.
Title: Samuel D. Heins
Content:  Samuel D. Heins (born May 31, 1947) is the former United States Ambassador to Norway, serving from 2016 to 2017. The wait for confirmation of a new ambassador by the United States Senate led to the Embassy being without a Senate-confirmed Ambassador for 29 months. He succeeded Barry B. White, who had resigned the position in 2013.
Title: Barry B. White
Content:  White was confirmed as ambassador to Norway by the United States Senate on September 22, 2009, and was sworn in as ambassador on October 21, 2009. In a confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 15, 2009, White emphasized the commitment shared by Norway and the U.S. to promoting human rights, democracy, and freedom throughout the world. He said that he looked forward to working to preserve and build upon this invaluable relationship, and to increase economic development opportunities both for U.S. companies in Norway and Norwegian firms in the United States. He left his position as ambassador in September 2013.
Title: Samuel D. Heins
Content:  He was confirmed by the Senate on February 12, 2016, and presented his credentials to Harald V of Norway on March 10, 2016. His long-awaited arrival was announced enthusiastically by Foreign Minister Børge Brende on Twitter, which is unusual for Ambassadorial appointments to Norway. Before his appointment, Ambassador Heins was most recently a partner in the Heins, Mills and Olson Law Firm in Minneapolis. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1968 and a J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1972. His spouse is also a retired lawyer. They have three children. He is the fifth U.S. Ambassador to Norway from Minnesota.
Title: Lithgow Osborne
Content:  On September 21, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Osborne as Ambassador to Norway, a post he held until May, 1946. On December 20 the same year Osborne presented his credentials as ambassador to King Haakon VII of Norway (in exile during World War II) in London and served until April 20, 1946. After taking care of the relationship with Norwegian exiles in London during World War II, Osborne moved to Oslo after the liberation in May 1945. His main post war tasks were to re-establish the good relations between the United States and the lawful Government of Norway on Norwegian soil, to make the United States Embassy in Oslo work efficiently again as well as to unite the United States' aid to the rebuilding of Norway after the war. For several years after his return from Oslo, Lithgow Osborne was chairman of the board of trustees for the American Scandinavian Foundation. In 1954 he helped draft the original Declaration of Atlantic Unity, which was both a statement of purpose and an agency designed to bolster the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": William Anders time as Chief of the Astronaut Office in 1976 prepared him for his new position as United States Ambassador to Norway.
Answer: True