White's next assignment after Gemini 4 was as the back-up for Gemini 7 Command Pilot Frank Borman.

In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Borman was played by David Andrews.

Borman was born in Gary, Indiana, where the Frank Borman Expressway is named after him.

Later, Borman was selected for the Aerospace Research Pilot School and became a test pilot.

Borman was selected in late 1966 to command the third manned Apollo mission, planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the second manned Lunar Module ( LM ) on the first manned launch of the Saturn V lunar rocket sometime in 1967 or early 1968.

Borman was chosen as the only astronaut to serve on the AS-204 Accident Review Board, charged with investigating the root causes of the fire and recommending corrective measures.

In April 1967, while serving on the board, Borman was one of five astronauts who testified before a United States Senate committee investigating the Apollo 1 fire.

Borman was then reassigned to his LM test mission, now planned to fly as " Apollo 9 " in early 1969 after a first, low Earth orbit LM flight commanded by McDivitt in December 1968.

The Command Module Pilot and navigator, Michael Collins, had to have back surgery and was replaced by his backup, James Lovell, reuniting Borman with his Gemini 7 crewmate.

The famous " Wings of Man " campaign in the late 1960s was created by advertising agency Young & Rubicam, and restored Eastern's tarnished image until the late 1970s, when former astronaut Frank Borman became president and it was replaced by a new campaign, " We Have To Earn Our Wings Every Day ".

The new campaign, which featured Borman as a spokesperson, was used until the mid-to-late 1980s.

Shortly after Gemini 10, Collins was assigned to the backup crew for the second manned Apollo flight, with commander Frank Borman, command module pilot ( CMP ) Thomas Stafford and Collins as lunar module pilot ( LMP ).

In the process of crews being reassigned, Collins was moved to the CMP position, since his new crew was Borman, Collins and William Anders.

On December 24, 1968, in what was the most watched television broadcast to that date, the astronauts Bill Anders, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman of Apollo 8 surprised the world with a reading of the Creation from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon.

They spent fifteen minutes formation flying with the stage, but Borman felt they were using too much fuel and the rocket stage was acting erratically as it vented its own fuel.

Borman and Lovell had planned to both take them off two days into the mission when they were satisfied that the environmental system was working properly.

Borman was wearing his suit and was sweating profusely, but agreed to let Lovell stay out his suit as Lovell was the larger of the two and it required a lot of effort to get in and out of a suit in little more space than the front seat of a car.

It was ailing financially, and Borman negotiated concessions from its employees, but he also ordered expensive new airplanes.

Unable to keep up, Borman agreed to the sale of the airline in 1986 to Texas Air, led by Frank Lorenzo.

Borman read Roughing It by Mark Twain and Lovell Drums along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds.

* The Expectation Maximization Algorithm: A short tutorial, A self contained derivation of the EM Algorithm by Sean Borman.

Neil Armstrong being awarded the first medal by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, with subsequent recipients Borman and Conrad seated.

But the Lunar Module wasn't ready in time, so NASA decided to make Apollo 8 a circumlunar flight of the Command / Service Module, flown by Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders.

" One of the white prison wardens suspects that some illegal activity is underway, and one night Peekay discovers Geel Piet has been murdered in the boxing gym by the violent warder Borman.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Borman.

This crater was previously designated Borman Z, a satellite crater of Borman, before being assigned its own name by the IAU.

On Saturday, September 13, 2008, at approximately 9: 00 a. m. CDT, all lanes of the Borman Expressway in both directions at Kennedy Avenue in Hammond were closed by the Indiana Department of Transportation ( INDOT ) and the Indiana State Police due to severe flooding from the Little Calumet River.

The E mission was planned as an elliptical medium Earth orbit test of the operational LM with the CSM in a simulated lunar mission to an apogee of, to be commanded by Frank Borman in March 1969.

Frank Frederick Borman, II ( born March 14, 1928 ) is a retired NASA astronaut, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so.

On November 13, 2008, Anders and fellow Apollo 8 crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell appeared on the NASA TV channel to discuss the Apollo 8 mission.

Eastern Air Lines CEO Frank Borman called the ghost stories surrounding the crash " garbage " and considered suing the producers of The Ghost of Flight 401 movie for defamation.

US 6 crosses the state line and shares the same Borman Expressway with Interstates 80 and 94 through Hammond and Gary, until Indiana 51 ( Exit 15 ); it then runs south for about and turns east until it meets US 421 in Westville, then runs south for a mile, then east until it meets US 31 and US 35, and it shares the same road with US 33 for about until Ligonier, where US 33 breaks south toward Fort Wayne.

In 1968, Joan Crawford, at the time over 60 years old, filled in for her ailing daughter, Christina Crawford, who played the role of Joan Borman Kane, a character aged just 28.

Henry Kissinger, Frank Borman, and Li Choh-ming visited for the University of Pittsburgh commencement on April 27, 1969.

Slayton had also assigned Bassett as command module pilot for the second backup Apollo crew, alongside Frank Borman and William Anders.

New York Red Bulls acquired De Rosario on April 1, 2011 in exchange for midfielder Tony Tchani, defender Danleigh Borman and a first round 2012 MLS SuperDraft pick.

Space journalist Andrew Chaikin claims that, following the death of Gus Grissom, Borman became astronaut chief Deke Slayton's choice to command the first Moon landing attempt.

This culminated in the Apollo Moon landings, which astronaut Frank Borman later described as " just a battle in the Cold War.

Initial members serving on the NSI board of directors and governors were a veritable " Who's Who " list that included comedian and entertainer Bob Hope, singer / songwriter John Denver, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, " Original 7 " Project Mercury astronaut and Senator John H. Glenn, Jr., Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Dr. Michael DeBakey, " Star Trek " creator Gene Roddenberry and actress Nichelle Nichols.

She played Susan Borman, wife of astronaut Frank Borman, in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

This presented a dilemma and also sparked a debate that reached as far as outer space when Frank Borman, an astronaut aboard Gemini 7, talked back to earth with the message, " tell Nobis to sign with Houston.

The Frank Borman Expressway is an east – west highway in the northwest part of the U. S. state of Indiana, named after astronaut and former Eastern Airlines CEO Frank Borman.

In 1998 he played another astronaut, Frank Borman, in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.