Posted on 11/09/2023 6:02:25 PM PST by Rummyfan
Frank Borman
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas – and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading
Frank Borman
NASA astro*naut*
Rank Colonel, United States Air Force
RIP
Fair winds and following seas.
The Eastern Airlines Mechanics took the Pilots and Flight Attendants and the airline to its grave.
Frank Borman, speaking about the dolt that the mechanics forced on the Board of Directors, said, “he’s a nice guy but he knows NOTHING about the airline business!”
That was the death of Eastern. Not Frank Borman’s fault, at all.
Union’s thinking they are the strength is the killer, for both company and employees.
Was Charlie Bryant the goon on the Board of Directors??
RIP Rocket man.
Very nice!
I see it on his uniform, upthread. Great to see a larger, color version.
Thx!
I lived for years in NM, near Las Cruces.
Frank Borman owned the local Ford dealership in Las Cruces.
It was interesting to buy a car from one of the first guys to go to the moon.
Well, there was a real connection.
Barbara was born in Tucson, and Frank grew up there.
So Tucson can at least say it’s responsible for two of the best looking people in the astronaut program. Or maybe “associated” with it in her case...
High Flight
BY JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE JR.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air ....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Rest In Peace, Frank.
Years ago, a guy in Omaha got a judgement against Borman’s Eastern Airlines. He took the judgement along with a deputy and waited for a plane to get loaded and then had the deputy serve the papers taking possession of the airplane to satisfy the judgement. It was only a couple hundred bucks but the gate folks didn’t know what to do so they called Eastern HQ. Story was they had to get Borman out of a meeting to approve the payment even though they had a plane full of passengers waiting on the tarmac.
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BFL
Wow. I just finished reading the book “Far Side of the Moon” about a week ago.
R.I.P., Frank.
He’s with his beloved Susan now.
Excerpt of the reading from Genesis, Chapter 1, Verses 1-10
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Tragic.
RIP Colonel Borman. With his passing, that makes Jim Lovell the oldest living person to have flown in space.
Why do you link to CNN? Every click on the website puts money in CNN’s pocket.
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