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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.
Frank Borman 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 Apollo 8 astronaut also went on to become chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
Astronaut Frank Borman-photo courtesy NASA BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Astr
Borman, whose Christmas Eve 1968 orbit of the moon captivated the world, was a graduate of Tucson High and is namesake of Frank Borman Elementary School in Tucson.