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

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.

In 1966, Borman announced the opening of three suburban shopping centers that would contain gas stations, car washes, garden supply stores, Yankee discount stores, and food stores, operating under the new moniker of Farmer Jack.

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.

In the fall of 1968 Slayton offered command of the first landing to Borman, who turned it down, choosing to retire instead.

Only three other Gemini astronauts, from this group, were chosen to command their first flights: Frank Borman ( Gemini 7 ), Neil Armstrong ( Gemini 8 ), and Elliot See.

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

The flight launched successfully three days later, conducting the first manned space rendezvous with astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell, Jr. in Gemini 7.

MSI's Henry Crown Space Center includes the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which flew the first mission beyond low earth orbit to the Moon, enabling its crew, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders to become the first human beings to see the Earth as a whole, as well as becoming the first to view the Moon up close ( as well as the first to view its farside at all ).

However, the first significant cases were in early Apollo flights ; Frank Borman on Apollo 8 and Rusty Schweickart on Apollo 9.

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.

In-flight footage of Frank Borman ( center ) during the Apollo 8 mission.

He is, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon ( of only 24 people to date ).

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.

Following the delays to training as Frank Borman took part in the fire investigation, the crew of what would become Apollo 8 started back.

In 1994, a unique gathering at the event featured 15 of the 25 then-surviving Apollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 ( Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins ) and Apollo 8 ( Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders ).

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.

* December 24 – Apollo 8 orbits the moon carrying Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders.

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.

The Borman Expressway is named after Frank Borman, commander of the Apollo 8 space mission, who was born in Gary.

Frank Borman and Jim Lovell walking up the ramp to the elevator before the Gemini 7 mission.

U. S. astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell read " Roughing It " aloud to pass the time aboard NASA's Gemini VII, a 14-day-long Earth orbital mission in December 1965.

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.

Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole.

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders are the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole.

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

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