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Gemini & Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman was offered the chance to fly as commander of Apollo 11, the first moon landing, but decided to retire from NASA instead. He would have taken Armstrong's place in history as the first man on the moon.
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During the Apollo 8 mission, astronaut Frank Borman was violently ill in zero gravity, leaving the spacecraft "full of small globules of vomit and feces"
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Due to the intense vibrations during the Apollo 8 launch, Bill Anders thought they'd "had it" but hoped that Frank Borman didn't have his hand on the abort controller, Frank had taken his hand off since "he'd rather die than make a false abort."
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Mission Commander Frank Borman took his hand off of the Abort Panel during the launch of Apollo 8 due to the intense shaking, saying that he "Would rather die than make a false abort."
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Many NASA astronauts spent the Christmas holidays away from home. Here is the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve message from Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, 1968.
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The first time George W. Bush was at the whitehouse was in 1969 when he was picking up Richard Nixon's daughter for a date at a dinner for his father's friend Frank Borman. (One of the three men to first fly around the moon in Apollo 8.)
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Bing Crosby's recording of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" was the first request deliberately broadcast into space to the Gemeni 7 crew of Jim Lovell and Frank Borman.
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Command of Apollo 11 was first offered to Frank Borman, who had commanded earlier Gemini and Apollo flights, but he turned it down in order to retire from NASA.
