Borman

[bawr-muhn]

noun

1. Frank Frederick II, 1928–2023, U.S. astronaut, commander of the first mission to orbit the moon (1968).

Example Sentences

Along with Frank Borman and Bill Anders, Jim Lovell made history when the three undertook the first lunar mission on Apollo 8, testing the Command/Service Module and its life support systems in preparation for the later Apollo 11 landing.

From BBC

Lovell and fellow astronaut Frank Borman ate a steak-and-eggs breakfast and blasted off.

From BBC

The Saturn V rocket that shot Lovell, Borman and William Anders out of our atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour was huge - three times larger than anything seen on the Gemini programme.

From BBC

As depicted in the 1998 TV miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon”, Borman told Congress that:

From Salon

The programme's Ken Mattingly and Frank Borman died within a few days of each other late last year.

From BBC