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Frank Borman was a US Air Force colonel, engineer, test pilot, and the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the Moon. He also led Eastern Air Lines and ran a cattle ranch in Montana before his death in 2023.
Nov 9, 2023 · Frank Borman, the commander of NASA’s 1968 Apollo 8 spaceflight, whose astronauts became the first men to orbit the moon, captured the famed image known as Earthrise and read lines from...
Jun 18, 2024 · Frank Borman was the commander of the first manned Saturn V space flight into lunar orbit, Apollo 8, in 1968. He also flew on Gemini 7 and served as a presidential ambassador for Vietnam prisoners of war.
Jun 27, 2024 · Frank Borman (born March 14, 1928, Gary, Indiana, U.S.—died November 7, 2023, Billings, Montana) was a U.S. astronaut who, in Apollo 8 with James A. Lovell and William A. Anders in December 1968, made the first crewed flight around the Moon.
Nov 9, 2023 · Apollo astronaut Frank Borman, 92, pilots his T-34 Mentor in Billings, Mont. Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, died, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
Nov 10, 2023 · Former Nasa astronaut Frank Borman, who led the first ever space mission around the moon on Apollo 8, has died. He passed away in Billings, Montana, aged 95, the agency said.
Nov 9, 2023 · Apollo astronaut Col. Frank Borman, who commanded the first mission to orbit the moon, has died in Billings, Montana, NASA announced.
