Word: borman
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...chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting the moon...
...triumphant tour of Europe last month, Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman amused his audiences by insisting that he, James Lovell and William Anders were older than they would have been had they not flown to the moon. "I think we should get overtime for that," he complained. Borman was joking about his pay, but he was quite serious about his aging. During their moon mission, the astronauts aged about 300 microseconds (300 millionths of a second) more than the people they left behind on earth...
...Borman was informed of his overtime by University of Maryland Physicist Carroll Alley who, at the request of NASA officials, calculated the effects on the astronauts of two phenomena described by Einstein's relativity equations: 1) time actually runs slower for an object as its speed increases-the so-called "time dilation" effect, and 2) time speeds up for an object as it moves away from a body (like the earth) exerting a gravitational force...
That monumental spin through space will be hard to match, but even so, Apollo 8 Command Pilot Frank Borman has had some rarefied moments on earth since reentry. Last week, for instance, a European tour took him from Buckingham Palace to the Elysée Palace to a dinner with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Borman proved himself a deft diplomat. In England he pointed out that Apollo's fuel cell was based on an invention by a Cambridge scientist. In Paris he praised French Science Fiction Author Jules Verne in a personal letter...
...most unusual event of the entire flight, Borman said, occurred near the end of the mission, when the heat of re-entry ionized the air around Apollo. "The whole spacecraft was bathed in light that made you feel like you were inside a neon tube." Borman, who last week was appointed deputy director of flight-crew operations at the Manned Spacecraft Center, will not make another space flight. But he is anxious that the horizons continue to expand for other astronauts. "I do not submit that there won't be further tragedy in this program," he said...