Astronaut Frank Borman still alive???

Born in 1928!


After Borman 1950 at the Military Academy at West Point had finished his aeronautical engineering degree, he served until 1953 as a combat pilot in the Air Force in the Philippines, then as a flight instructor in Georgia and Arizona. 1957 Borman received a master's degree in aerospace. Then he taught until 1960 as assistant professor at West Point, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Then he returned to Edwards Air Force Base in California back into the cockpit again: first in education as a test pilot, then as an instructor.
On 17 September 1962 he was selected by NASA astronauts in the second group. As a special task he took on the missiles, which should bring the spacecraft into orbit.
End of 1963, Borman was intended as a replacement pilot for the maiden flight of Gemini third By Fluguntauglichkeit of the proposed Gemini-3-commander Alan Shepard and the postponement of the mission profiles was then, however, Borman replacement commander of Gemini 4, which on 27 Was communicated to the public in July 1964.
After the flight in June 1965 had been carried out successfully, Borman was nominated as commander of Gemini 7th Borman was thus the second after James McDivitt NASA astronaut who has been already transferred on the first flight in command of a multi-person space ship. Together with Jim Lovell orbited of 4December to 18 December 1965 the earth, a long-term record, which was only broken 1970th
On 29 September 1966 he was assigned as a replacement commander for the second manned Apollo flight, but this flight was a few weeks later deleted because it was an unnecessary repetition of the first flight.
After the disaster of Apollo 1, in which three astronauts were killed, Frank Borman was a member of the Commission of Inquiry. As a result, he was given the task of rebuilding the team for the Apollo command module to conduct.
After NASA had received the plans for manned space flights again, were on 20 November 1967 the divisions for the second and third Apollo flight (Missions D and E) if known. Borman was provided as mission commander for E. Together with him, Michael Collins and William Anders were divided. This should be the first manned flight of the Saturn V rocket and take up to 11 days.
In the summer of 1968 was marked off, however, that the lunar module, the second manned Apollo flight (the Mission D) should be tested, would not be ready in time. In August, NASA decided to inform the public without the time being, that the mission could be brought forward and I should go around the Bormans Mission Team C 'on the moon. However, Michael Collins had to undergo surgery and was replaced by Jim Lovell.
C. After the mission (Apollo 7) proceeded successfully, NASA decided on 10 November definitively that Borman's team should be the first to fly to the moon. The historic flight of Apollo 8 was launched on 21December 1968 and lasted seven days. Borman for this was the second and final space flight. He was one of the few astronauts from the Gemini and Apollo project, which had never even worked as a speaker connection (Capcom).
In July 1969, just before the lunar landing of Apollo 11 Borman officially visited the Soviet Union. He was supported by his wife and his 15 - and 17-year-old sons accompanied. Borman met Nikolai Kamanin, the head of the Soviet manned space flight, and the cosmonauts Feoktistow, Titov, Shatalov, Volynow, Beregowoi and Tereshkova. Kamanin Borman acknowledged as a skilled orator and diplomat as well as a born politician.
On 1 July 1970 Frank Borman retired from NASA and went to the U.S. airline Eastern Airlines, first as Vice President, as chairman from 1976. During his time at Eastern reach of the four most profitable company financial statements in its history.
As an Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 on 29 December 1972 accident in the Everglades in Florida is still Borman involved in the same night in person to the rescue.
In 1986 he retired from the company. Currently he is working on the restoration of aircraft.