Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman II was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 24 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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- Born in
- Gary
- Educated at
- United States Military AcademyHarvard Business SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyU.S. Air Force Test Pilot SchoolTucson High Magnet School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Aviation Hall of Fame🏆 United States Astronaut Hall of Fame🏆 Congressional Space Medal of Honor🏆 Distinguished Flying Cross🏆 International Space Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"When you're finally up at the moon looking back on earth, all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you're going to get a concept that maybe this really is one…"
"This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. A machine produced by more than three hundred thousand Ame…"
"There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things. This was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, and I handed Jim and Bill their lines from the Ho…"
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1928
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