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Frank Borman

1928 - 2023

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Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 24 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Four days before he graduated with the West Point Class of 1950, in which he was ranked eighth out of 670, Borman was commissioned in the USAF. He qualified as a fighter pilot and served in the Philippines. He earned a Master of Science degree at Caltech in 1957, and then became an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Borman is the 53rd most popular astronaut (down from 20th in 2019), the 2,617th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,353rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Frank Borman ranks 53 out of 556. Before him are Alan Bean, Valeri Polyakov, Sergei Krikalev, Charles Duke, Don L. Lind, and Valeri Kubasov. After him are Vladislav Volkov, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Gordon Cooper, Ellison Onizuka, Wally Schirra, and Fred Haise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Frank Borman ranks 139. Before him are Anne Sexton, Sid Watkins, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Peter Naur, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Pancho Gonzales. After him are Héctor Rial, Lennart Carleson, Enrique Bolaños, Dick York, Veljko Bulajić, and Édouard Molinaro. Among people deceased in 2023, Frank Borman ranks 106. Before him are Wayne Shorter, Treat Williams, Roberto Dinamite, John Romita Sr., Jean-Pierre Jabouille, and Stockton Rush. After him are Betty Boothroyd, David Crosby, Kaija Saariaho, Menahem Pressler, Petar Zhekov, and Ruslan Khasbulatov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Borman ranks 2,617 out of 20,380. Before him are Debra Winger (1955), Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jason Bateman (1969), Carl Van Vechten (1880), and Donna Murphy (1959). After him are William Carlos Williams (1883), Danny Elfman (1953), Cardi B (1992), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Edward Kasner (1878), and John de Lancie (1948).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Frank Borman ranks 35. Before him are James Irwin (1930), Henry Hartsfield (1933), Roger B. Chaffee (1935), Alan Bean (1932), Charles Duke (1935), and Don L. Lind (1930). After him are Gordon Cooper (1927), Ellison Onizuka (1946), Wally Schirra (1923), Fred Haise (1933), Michael P. Anderson (1959), and Christa McAuliffe (1948).

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