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Frank Borman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Frank Frederick Borman, II, Frank Frederick Borman II, Frank Borman II, Frank F. Borman II
American astronaut (1928–2023)
Frank Borman was an American astronaut who lived from 1928 to 2023 and is best known for commanding Apollo 8, the 1968 mission that took humans to orbit the Moon for the first time. His leadership on this historic spaceflight made him a central figure in the early Space Age and helped pave the way for the Apollo 11 Moon landing a year later.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Works
- 3
Top works
- In the beginning God ...
- Countdown
- U.S. prisoners of war in Southeast Asia
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928
- Active to
- 2023
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 41
- Total plays
- 68
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 28,456x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,585x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 15,917x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,767x
- NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes
· 1995 · cited 13,792x
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Quotes
- “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 world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people.”
- “"God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”
- “Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.”
- “Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”
- “A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.”
- “The Earth was the only thing in the world — in the universe — that had any color. Everything else was black and white but the earth was beautiful blue and white and brownish continents. That was the most impressive sight for me of the entire flight.”
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- Frank Borman
- date of birth
- 1928-03-14
- time in space
- 28655
- birth name
- Frank Frederick Borman II
- name in native language
- Frank Borman
- date of death
- 2023-11-07
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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. 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 28 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Four days before he graduated with the West Point Class of 1950, in which he was ranked eighth out of 670, Borman was commissioned in the USAF. He qualified as a fighter pilot and served in the Philippines. He earned a Master of Science degree at Caltech in 1957, and then became an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point. In 1960, he was selected for Class 60-C at the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California and qualified as a test pilot. On graduation, he was accepted as one of five students in the first class at the Aerospace Research Pilot School.