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Looking at the Moon from Apollo 8
From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were able to describe the surface of the moon in detail. "The back side [of the moon] looks like a ...
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Frank Borman, NASA Astronaut Who Led First Orbit of the Moon, Dead at 95: ‘True American Hero’
HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Frank Borman — a former NASA astronaut Col. who commandeered the Apollo 8 to the moon — has died at the age of 95. Borman died on Nov. 7 in Billings ...
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Relativity: A Matter of Overtime
On his triumphant tour of Europe last month, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman amused his audiences by insisting that he, James Lovell and William Anders were older than they would have been had ...