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Frank Borman

American astronaut (1928–2023)

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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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Born: 1928
Died: 2023-11-07
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Country: US
Active from: 1928-03-14
Active to: 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.