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Frank Borman obituary: Astronaut, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died
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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.
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Frank Borman commanded two early NASA missions including Apollo 8, the first to orbit the moon. He was a no-nonsense astronaut known for his keen attention to detail and duty to country.
BILLINGS, Mont. — 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
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.
Frank Borman, who worked as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force before becoming a NASA Astronaut who commandeered Apollo 8 around the moon in 1968, has died at the age of 95, NASA announced on Thursday.
BILLINGS, Mont. >> 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.
Borman commanded the Apollo 8 Christmas 1968 flight, which circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year. He died Tuesday, NASA said.
Commander Frank Borman, who led NASA's first mission around the moon, died this week in Billings, Montana. At 95, he was the oldest living astronaut—and one of the most revered.
Gary native Frank Borman commanded the Apollo 8 flight that was the first manned mission to fly to the moon. The astronaut for whom the Borman Expressway is named died
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.
Frank Borman, the commander of Apollo 8 who led the first mission to orbit the moon in 1968, has died at the age of 95. Borman and his crew paved the way for space exploration.
Borman, whose Christmas Eve 1968 orbit of the moon captivated the world, was a graduate of Tucson High and is namesake of Frank Borman Elementary School in Tucson.
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