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Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman.
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 Genesis...
Nov 9, 2023 · Apollo astronaut Col. Frank Borman, who commanded the first mission to orbit the moon, has died in Billings, Montana, NASA announced.
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.
Jun 6, 2024 · Frank Borman was a U.S. astronaut, who in Apollo 8 with James Lovell and William Anders in December 1968, made the first crewed flight around the Moon. In 1965 Borman and Lovell also performed the first space rendezvous in Gemini 7, coming to within a few feet of Gemini 6.
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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.
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.
