Success· Flight 2
Apollo 8
- Launched
- Dec 21, 1968 · 12:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- From
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Destination
- Moon Orbit
- Landed
- Dec 27, 1968
Crewmates
Jim LovellNASA
William AndersNASA

Deceased· NASA · American
Frank Frederick Borman II was a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of...

Spaceflights
2
Time in space
19days
Spacewalks
0
Success· Flight 2
Success· Flight 1
Frank Frederick Borman II was a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so. Before flying on Apollo, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record on Gemini 7, and also served on the NASA review board which investigated the Apollo 1 fire. After leaving NASA, he was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986. Borman is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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