Frank Borman
Frank Borman
Frank Frederick Borman, II,, is a retired 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth14 March 1928
CityGary, IN
CountryUnited States of America
Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.
We have to earn our Wings every day.
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.
It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.
Astronauts: space activists.
[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . . . . It makes us realize that we all do exist on one small globe. For from 230,000 miles away it really is a small planet.
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.
A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.