“Astronaut Frank Borman was a true American hero,” Nelson ... carrying his aviation knowledge over to Eastern Airlines, where he became an advisor in early 1969, rose to CEO in 1975 and ...

Frank Borman, commander of Apollo 8 ... Borman briefly advised President Richard Nixon on space policy before joining Eastern Airlines and serving as its president and chief operating officer.

If capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell, as former astronaut and Eastern Airlines CEO Frank Borman famously put it, then the U.S. over the past decade or so has been a ...