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HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Frank Borman — a former NASA astronaut Col. who commandeered the Apollo 8 to the moon — has died at the age of 95. Borman died on Nov. 7 in Billings ...
In December 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders returned from history’s first voyage around the Moon with this stunning image. In the following weeks, on newspaper ...
Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8, wrote in his autobiography, "The NASA of more recent years got the idea that you could put almost any highly intelligent person into a spacecraft and qualify ...
Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman was a stickler for protocol. As long as things had worked before, he saw no reason to change them. He argued for fewer orbits around the moon, and fewer experiments ...
The Apollo 8 astronauts, (from left) Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, and Frank Borman, were the first people to truly leave Earth. In his new book, Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to ...
William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic ... wished he had taken more photos but mission Commander Frank Borman was concerned about whether everyone was rested and ...
He was 90 years old. The Apollo 8 spacecraft was launched by the US in 1968 with Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders onboard. It was the first crewed spacecraft to leave the Earth's ...
If W. Ray Persons weren’t a skilled litigator, he’d be an astronaut — specifically Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8. To Ray, Frank embodies magnanimity through leadership, integrity, courage, ...
(The three astronauts from Apollo 8. Photo: Nasa) In December 1968, Anders, along with crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Saturn V, before ...
Anders gained global recognition as part of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968. He, along with Frank Borman and James Lovell, became one of the first humans to orbit the Moon, completing ten ...