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Borman was selected by NASA for the second NASA astronaut group in 1962, and was chosen as the Command Pilot for Gemini 7.

He was one of just four of this group chosen to command their first Gemini missions, the others being James McDivitt, Neil Armstrong, and Elliot See.

( See was killed in a T-38 trainer jet crash three months before his mission.

Astronauts Gerald Carr and Joe Engle, selected later, also commanded their first space flights.