Frank Borman was a NASA astronaut, and the commander for Apollo 8, which was the first mission to orbit the moon in 1968 before the eventual Apollo 11 mission in 1969. A proud resident of Montana, he passed away from a stroke on November 7th at the age of 95. After he and his team, which included fellow astronauts Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, returned, he said that he realized that the boundaries we have as humans are artificial, perhaps alluding to the fact that we are not limited to just the Earth and that there's much more unexplored areas in the universe.
While on the mission, Borman said that he was instructed to "do something appropriate" as there would be a live broadcast on Christmas Eve coming from them and he proceeded to deliver a message and recite a few passages of scripture from the first lines of Genesis. After going around the lunar orbit, the Earth came into view, and Bill Anders took the iconic photo of Earth as seen from the lunar orbit, which later became a stamp.
Before Apollo 8, Borman had been a test pilot and a fighter pilot, and upon returning home from the successful mission, he became a CEO and spent his latter years in Billings, Montana.
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