Borman, Frank (1928–)
American astronaut, selected by NASA in 1962, who commanded the Gemini
7 and Apollo 8 missions. He received a
B.S. from West Point in 1950 and a M.S. from the California Institute of
Technology in 1957. From 1950 to 1970, Borman was a career Air Force officer
serving as a fighter pilot in the Philippines, an operational pilot and
instructor with various squadrons in the United States, an assistant professor
of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at West Point, and an experimental
test pilot at the Air Force Aerospace Pilot School. After leaving NASA in
1969, Borman joined Eastern Airlines and rose to become chairman of its
board in 1976. Today he is an official of the Patlex Corporation.
Reference
- Borman, Frank with Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography.
New York: William Morrow, 1988.
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