Frank Frederick Borman II (1928 - 2023)

Born 14 Mar 1928 in Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Susan (Bugbee) Borman — married 20 Jul 1950 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States

Died 7 Nov 2023 at age 95 in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States

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Biography

Frank Borman was a United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut who commanded Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon,

Frank was born in 1928 to parents Edwin Otto Borman and Marjorie Ann Pearce.^[1] He married Susan Bugbee on 20 July 1950 in Tucson, Arizona.^[2] Susan passed away in 2021.

In 1950, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he was ranked 8th in a class of 670 graduates. He also obtained a Master of Science degree at the California Institute of Technology. He served as an United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman.

Among his missions, he piloted Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders. He was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Frank Borman addresses the crew of the USS Yorktown after a successful Apollo 8 splashdown and recovery

As of 2023, he was he oldest living former American astronaut. After retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1970, he became senior vice president for operations at Eastern Air Lines. He became chief executive officer of Eastern in 1975, and chairman of the board in 1976. He died in 2023. ^[3]

Air Force Distinguished Service	Legion of Merit	Distinguished Flying Cross

1957	Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology. Assistant Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at West Point.
1962	Selected by NASA in Astronaut Group 2[5]
1965	(04 Dec - 18 Dec) Flew on Gemini 7 with Jim Lovell. Awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal[6]
	Gemini 7	NASA Exceptional Service
1968	(21 Dec - 27 Dec) Flew on Apollo 8 with William Anders and Jim Lovell	Apollo 8
1969	Awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal[6]	NASA Distinguished Service
1970	Retired from the Air Force as a Colonel and from NASA
1975	Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Eastern Air Lines
1978	Awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor[6]	Congressional Space Medal of Honor
1993	Inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame[7]

He was also named by Time Magazine as "Men of the Year" for 1968 and he appeared on the cover of the January 3, 1969, Time issue. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940," Ancestry.com.Ancestry Record 60871 #3467275
2. ↑ Marriage: "U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current"
   Verona-Cedar Grove Times; Publication Date: 10/ Aug/ 1950; Publication Place: Verona, New Jersey, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/539376710/?article=e41919ff-d16d-42fb-9e00-25c5d289ab78&focus=0.5057116,0.07465133,0.6223578,0.4076528&xid=3398
   Ancestry Record 62116 #121676954 (accessed 23 March 2023)
   Lt Frank Borman marriage to Susan Bugbee on 20 Jul 1950 in Tucson.
3. ↑ Death of Frank Norman
4. ↑ "Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972," Ancestry.com.Ancestry Record 60873 #513074
5. ↑ Wikipedia List of Astronauts, by Year
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Agency Awards Historical Recipient List
7. ↑ Hall of Fame Bio
8. ↑ https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,900486,00.html

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH98-QKX : accessed 18 December 2017), Frank Borman in household of Edwin Borman, Gary, Lake, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 44, sheet 28B, line 93, family 520, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 599; FHL microfilm 2,340,334.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VY43-QW7 : accessed 18 December 2017), Frank Borman in household of Edwin Borman, Ward 4, Tucson, Supervisorial District 1, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 10-20, sheet 4A, line 4, family 73, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 111.

See also:

• Frank Borman on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
• Wikidata: Item Q18762, en:Wikipedia
• Ancestry Profile