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  Frank Borman
A romance with airplanes that began when he was 15 years old took Frank Borman to the Air Force and then to NASA.
Frank Borman retired from the Air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and a veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968.
Frank Borman was born in Gary, Indiana, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona.
www.in.gov /dot/div/specialprojects/borman/about/frank.html   (487 words)

  
 Borman (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borman is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
The rim of Borman crater remains sharp-edged, although a smaller crater lies across its northwestern rim.
'Borman L' is an older and much more worn crater that is attached to the southern rim of Borman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borman_(crater)   (163 words)

  
 Borman, Frank (1928-)
He received a B.S. from West Point in 1950 and a M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1957.
From 1950 to 1970, Borman was a career Air Force officer serving as a fighter pilot in the Philippines, an operational pilot and instructor with various squadrons in the United States, an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at West Point, and an experimental test pilot at the Air Force Aerospace Pilot School.
After leaving NASA in 1969, Borman joined Eastern Airlines and rose to become chairman of its board in 1976.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Borman.html   (167 words)

  
 Frank Borman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Borman commanded the United States Apollo 8 space flight that circled the moon 10 times on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, 1968.
Borman made the flight with astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders.
Borman was born in Gary, Ind. He entered the Air Force after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 1950.
www.worldbook.com /features/apollo11/html/borman.htm   (199 words)

  
 Borman
The crew assigned to the E mission (Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William Anders) would be reassigned to the C prime mission.
Borman was to arrive with his wife and two sons (ages 15 and 17).
Borman presented Titov with the watch he received from President Johnson after the Gemini 7 mission - it is to be put in the museum.
www.astronautix.com /astros/borman.htm   (3671 words)

  
 Frank Borman, Colonel, USAF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Colonel Frank Borman was assigned as Commander of the third manned Apollo flight.
Colonel Borman was born in Gary, Indiana on March 14, 1928, and was raised in Tucson, Arizona.
Colonel Borman is married to the former Susan Bugbee of Tucson, Arizona.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Apollo204/borman.html   (255 words)

  
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Frank Borman retired form the Air Force in 1970, is well remembered as a part of this nation’s history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968.
Colonel Borman was privileged to serve as Special Presidential Ambassador on trips throughout the Far East and Europe, including a worldwide tour to seek support for the release of American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam.
Frank Borman is married to the former Susan Bugbee of Tucson, Arizona.
www.nss.org /about/bios/borman.html   (705 words)

  
 Prentice Hall Student Success SuperSite
The one success Frank singles out as his greatest is when he made world history during the Apollo 8 mission by being the first to orbit the moon.
Frank suggests that one sure way to achieve success is to pick one mission, focus on it, and give the best of your ability to accomplishing that mission.
Frank demonstrated strong leadership as the Apollo 8 commander and as CEO.
www.prenhall.com /success/Stories/frank.html   (495 words)

  
 Frank Borman
Frank Borman was born in Gary, Indiana on March 14, 1928.
On December 21, 1968, Borman, Anders and Lovell became the first men to leave Earth's gravity and orbit the Moon.
Frank Borman left NASA in 1970 and later served for many years as chief executive officer of Eastern Airlines.
www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/borman.htm   (222 words)

  
 1999 National Championship Air Races - Frank Borman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Commander Frank Borman is one of the several astronauts to serve as grand marshals at the 1999 National Championship Air Races in Reno, Sept. 16 through 19.
Borman served as backup command pilot on Gemini 4 prior to flying on Gemini 7.
Borman was commander of Apollo 8, the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon.
www.nevadanet.com /airraces/frankborman.html   (334 words)

  
 NOVA | Transcripts | To the Moon | PBS
FRANK BORMAN: Yeah, they were concerned on landing that when all of a sudden our hearts were pumping the blood in a one G environment that we might have problems or pass out.
FRANK BORMAN: One of the things that would tell us if we were on track or not was a certain point in the flight plan when we'd look down and see the sunrise impacting the lunar surface.
FRANK BORMAN: Realizing that we had done our job well, that we beat the Russians to the moon, and there was no doubt in my mind now that the rest of the program was going to work, I had a feeling almost of euphoria, I was so pleased, I was so thankful.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/2610tothemoon.html   (14600 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Frank Borman
When NASA decided to try for a lunar orbit mission Borman was key to deciding to stay with this far more dangerous mission profile.
Borman currently enjoys rebuilding and flying airplanes from World War II and the Korean era.
Frank Borman was played in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon by David Andrews.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Frank_Borman   (299 words)

  
 Frank Borman Signing at Novaspace Gallery,2005
Borman's fiery, firm leadership rebuilt the Apollo crew module and Borman himself commanded the first manned moon mission on only the second manned flight of the new spacecraft less than two years later.
Borman recalled that someone anonymously had threatened to throw lye in his face during the parade, ("probably one of Susan’s old boyfreinds") so he wore goggles and vaseline on his face during the event.
Borman never showed us the crusty Eastern Airlines CEO or the gruff architect of the new Apollo after the 1967 fire, but was laughing and friendly for a "first-timer" at our signings.
www.novaspace.com /AUTO/SIGNINGS/Borman2005.html   (1668 words)

  
 Astronaut Bio: Frank Borman (Colonel, USAF, Retired) NASA Astronaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Colonel Borman was a career Air Force officer from l950 to 1970 when he retired with the rank of colonel.
Colonel Borman is best known as commander of the Apollo 8 space flight, first manned lunar orbital mission in December, 1968, and previously as commander of the Gemini 7 mission in 1965.
Frank Borman, astronaut, colonel in the U.S. Air Force, program manager, test pilot and advisor on space programs, became an Eastern Airlines vice president in July of 1970.
vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/borman.htm   (486 words)

  
 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: Frank Borman
Frank Borman commanded Gemini 7, which was part of the first space rendezvous mission, and commanded Apollo 8, the first flight to orbit the moon.
Borman was a career Air Force office from 1950 to 1970, when he retired with the rank of colonel.
Three years later, on Dec 21, 1968, Borman, Lovell and Bill Anders were the first humans launched toward the moon and the first to ride the mammoth Saturn V rocket.
www.astronautscholarship.org /borman.html   (350 words)

  
 Zero mustang borman.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
No physical shots were fired continent to continent, and no declarations of war were signed, but a war was raging with the world's two largest superpowers racing to claim a victory not of this earth, but in the far reaches of the sky.
This desire to be "on the front lines" was the driving force that took Colonel Borman, then an instructor at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, Calif., to NASA in September 1962.
Anniversary Air Show will be his first, Colonel Borman said he is well aware that many of those 400,000 Americans he credits with Apollo's success worked in the wind tunnels and rocket test cells at AEDC on projects such as the service propulsion module for Apollo.
www.arnold.af.mil /aedc/highmach/stories/borman.html   (1037 words)

  
 The genesis of Apollo 8’s ‘earthrise’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Borman needed to roll the spacecraft so that Lovell could do a navigational sighting, and he and Lovell had been waiting patiently for Anders to finish.
Borman always claimed that he took it, and anyone who knew Frank Borman (including Bill Anders and Jim Lovell) knew he wouldn’t make this claim unless he believed it to be true.
Borman took the first earthrise shot ever taken, but his fl-and-white photograph on a different roll of film has been ignored all these years because Anders’ later but prettier color shot of the same earthrise was available.
www.msnbc.com /news/224407.asp?cp1=1   (2148 words)

  
 Frank Borman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
On 24 December 1968, Colonel Frank Borman and the crew of Apollo VIII became the first men to leave earth’s environment.
In 1957, Colonel Borman earned his M.A. degree in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and, for the next 5 years, taught thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point.
Frank Borman retired from the Air Force in 1970.
www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/83bios/borman83.htm   (396 words)

  
 NOVA Online | To the Moon | Frank Borman
Frank Borman was Commander of both Gemini 7 and Apollo 8.
On the latter flight, Borman, along with Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, became the first people to lay eyes on the back side of the moon.
It was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/tothemoon/borman.html   (602 words)

  
 Saturday Evening Post: Frank Borman: aviation's most daring executive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
But Borman, as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Eastern Airlines, has stubbornly insisted that bold chances are sometimes needed in difficult times.
In 1962 he was selected as an astronaut; he served as the commander of the Gemini 7 mission in 1965; and three years later he accepted the role as the commander of Apollo 8.
Borman endeared himself to America during the 1968 Apollo 8 voyage.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_v258/ai_4151298   (506 words)

  
 John Kotter at The Masters Forum
By the time Masters Forum speaker John Kotter switched the Borman video off, session members were shaking their heads at the dreadful tone of the most important moment in Frank Borman's managerial career.
If Frank Borman was skewered for leadership failings, Kotter made sure he included in his sketches of leaders a handful of executives, each very different from the others, that together embody the attributes people value in leaders.
One of the reasons Frank Borman turned out not to have exactly the right stuff for leadership was the environment he had to work in.
www.mfinley.com /experts/kotter/kotterf.htm   (3068 words)

  
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 The Apollo 8 Flight Journal - Day 2: The Green Team
Frank Borman's mean heart rate, 74, high of 77, a low of 71, and respiration is running about 15 per minute.
Frank has described his condition on its voice track and since they are about to replay the contents of the tape to Earth, Bill is trying to gently nudge flight controllers to listen to this voice track immediately rather than leaving it until later.
Collins asked the crew for additional detail on their condition and Frank Borman comes on the line and he describes his problems and he also says he has had several hours of rest this morning and is feeling much, much better.
history.nasa.gov /ap08fj/06day2_green.htm   (13212 words)

  
 APOLLO MISSION CONTROL PHOTO PLUS
Frank Borman and James Lovell are shown seated in the Gemini spacecraft during joint systems test of the launch vehicle and spacecraft for the upcoming 14 day mission.
Gemini 7, carrying Astronauts Frank Borman, command pilot, and James A. Lovell Jr., pilot, was successfully launched from Pad 19 at 2:30 p.m., 4 December 1965.
A wonderful distance view of Gemini 7, carrying Astronauts Frank Borman, command pilot, and James A. Lovell Jr., pilot, that was successfully launched from Pad 19 at 2:30 p.m., 4 December 1965.
www.apollomissionphotos.com /index_Gemini_7.html   (1224 words)

  
 Rod Rose
Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders departed Kennedy Space Center on December 21st, 1968, and arrived at the moon three days later.
Two Sundays before Apollo 8 blasted off, Frank Borman found out that he was on the duty list as a lay reader for the Christmas Eve communion at St. Christopher's.
Borman, knowing that he would be circling the moon at that time, got agreement from the minister, Jim Buckner, that he could deliver his reading from lunar orbit for recording and later playback at the service.
www.avroarrow.org /AvroArrow/RodRose.html   (1124 words)

  
 The Apollo 8 Flight Journal - Day 2: The Black Team
Frank Borman is awake and will wait another three hours before turning in for some sleep.
As you heard Colonel Frank Borman, he is up at the present time by himself minding the store in Apollo 8 while the other two crewmembers, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders are taking a rest period.
As you heard, spacecraft Commander Frank Borman did request the weather advisory for his time of return to Earth and you certainly can't fault the spacecraft Commander for not planning his mission in advance.
history.nasa.gov /ap08fj/08day2_black.htm   (12960 words)

  
 Frank Borman --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Three years earlier Borman and Lovell had made the Gemini 7 endurance flight in which they remained in space for 330 hours 35 minutes.
U.S. astronaut Frank Borman was born in Gary, Ind., in 1928.
In 1970 Lovell was commander of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, but the mission to land on the moon had to be aborted after an accident put the safety of the crew in jeopardy.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080762   (745 words)

  
 Frank Borman
Previously, in 1965, Borman (and Jim Lovell) crewed Gemini 7 in the first Space Orbital Rendezvous, linking their craft with the Gemini 6 craft manned by Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford.
In 1967 Borman served on the Apollo 204 Fire Investigation Board (he been an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at West Point), and later headed the team that re-engineered the Apollo spacecraft.
Among Borman's many honors and awards are the the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal.
www.nndb.com /people/260/000023191   (319 words)

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