BILLINGS, Mont. - Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8′s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95.
Borman died Nov. 7 in Billings, Montana, according to NASA.
He and his crew, James Lovell and William Anders, were the first Apollo mission to fly to the moon — and to see Earth as a distant sphere in space. (The AP 11/10/23) Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of first Apollo mission to the moon, dies at 95 - gulflive.com
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