Frank Frederick Borman, II (born March 14, 1928), (
Col,
USAF, Ret.), is a retired
United States Air Force pilot,
aeronautical engineer,
test pilot, and
NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of
Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the
Moon, making him, along with crew mates
Jim Lovell and
Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so. Before flying on Apollo, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record on
Gemini 7, and also served on the NASA review board which investigated the
Apollo 1 fire. After leaving NASA, he was the
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Eastern Air Lines from 1975 to 1986. Borman is a recipient of the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor.