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Astronaut Frank 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, has died. He was 95.<\/p>\n

Borman died Tuesday in Billings, Montana<\/a>, according to NASA.<\/p>\n

Borman also led troubled Eastern Airlines in the 1970s and early ’80s after leaving the astronaut corps.<\/p>\n

ASTRONAUT FRANK BORMAN DESCRIBES WATCHING THE MOON LANDING WITH PRESIDENT NIXON IN THE WHITE HOUSE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

APOLLO 8 ASTRONAUTS RECOUNT NASA’S EPIC FIRST MISSION TO THE MOON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

But he was best known for his NASA duties<\/a>. He and his crew, James Lovell and William Anders, were the first Apollo mission to fly to the moon \u2014 and to see Earth as a distant sphere in space.<\/p>\n

“Today we remember one of NASA\u2019s best. Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement Thursday. “His lifelong love for aviation and exploration was only surpassed by his love for his wife Susan.”<\/p>\n

Launched from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral on Dec. 21, 1968, the Apollo 8 trio spent three days traveling to the moon, and slipped into lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. After they circled 10 times on Dec. 24-25, they headed home on Dec. 27.<\/p>\n

On Christmas Eve, the astronauts read from the Book of Genesis in a live telecast from the orbiter: “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”<\/p>\n

Borman ended the broadcast with, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you \u2014 all of you on the good Earth.”<\/p>\n

Lovell and Borman had previously flown together during the two-week Gemini 7 mission, which launched on Dec. 4, 1965 \u2014 and, at only 120 feet apart, completed the first space orbital rendezvous with Gemini 6.<\/p>\n

“Gemini was a tough go,” Borman told The Associated Press in 1998. “It was smaller than the front seat of a Volkswagen bug. It made Apollo seem like a super-duper, plush touring bus.”<\/p>\n

In his book, “Countdown: An Autobiography,” Borman said Apollo 8 was originally supposed to orbit Earth. The success of Apollo 7’s mission in October 1968 to show system reliability on long duration flights made NASA decide it was time to take a shot at flying to the moon.<\/p>\n

But Borman said there was another reason NASA changed the plan: the agency wanted to beat the Russians. Borman said he thought one orbit would suffice.<\/p>\n

“My main concern in this whole flight was to get there ahead of the Russians and get home. That was a significant achievement in my eyes,” Borman explained at a Chicago appearance in 2017.<\/p>\n

HOW THE APOLLO 8 CREW DELIVERED AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD MESSAGE OF HOPE DURING A PIVOTAL CHRISTMAS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It was on the crew’s fourth orbit that Anders snapped the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing a blue and white Earth rising above the gray lunar landscape.<\/p>\n

Borman wrote about how the Earth looked from afar: “We were the first humans to see the world in its majestic totality, an intensely emotional experience for each of us. We said nothing to each other, but I was sure our thoughts were identical \u2014 of our families on that spinning globe. And maybe we shared another thought I had, This must be what God sees.”<\/p>\n

After NASA, Borman’s aviation career ventured into business in 1970 when he joined Eastern Airlines \u2014 at that time the nation\u2019s fourth-largest airline. He eventually became Eastern\u2019s president and CEO and in 1976 also became its chairman of the board.<\/p>\n

Borman\u2019s tenure at Eastern saw fuel prices increase sharply and the government deregulate the airline industry. The airline became increasingly unprofitable, debt-ridden and torn by labor tensions. He resigned in 1986 and moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/a><\/p>\n

In his autobiography, Borman wrote that his fascination with flying began in his teens when he and his father would assemble model airplanes. At age 15, Borman took flying lessons, using money he had saved working as a bag boy and pumping gas after school. He took his first solo flight after eight hours of dual instruction. He continued flying into his 90s.<\/p>\n

SCIENTISTS EXPLAIN ‘STRANGE ASYMMETRY’ MYSTERY FOR THE FAR SIDE OF MOON IN NEW RESEARCH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Borman was born in Gary, Indiana, but was raised in Tucson, Arizona. He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in 1950. That same year, Borman married his high school sweetheart, Susan Bugbee. She died in 2021.<\/p>\n

Borman worked as a U.S. Air Force<\/a> fighter pilot, operational pilot and instructor at West Point after graduation. In 1956, Borman moved his family to Pasadena, California, where he earned a master of science degree in aeronautical engineering from California Institute of Technology. In 1962, he was one of nine test pilots chosen by NASA for the astronaut program.<\/p>\n

He received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor from President Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Borman started a cattle ranch in Bighorn, Montana, with his son, Fred. In addition to Fred, he survived by another son, Edwin, and their families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/frank-borman-apollo-8-commander-space-pioneer-dies-95 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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