Word: borman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was good reason for both exhilaration and apprehension. As they began their pioneering journey, Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were pushed into space by a rocket that had never before been used in manned flight. Only minutes after they were propelled out of earth orbit toward the moon, they were farther than man has ever been from his home planet (the previous record of 850 miles was set by the US. Gemini 11 mission...
...points during their trip, a balky rocket could leave them stranded in orbit around the moon or drive them into collision with the lunar surface. By-the time they are fired from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A by the world's most powerful rocket, Saturn 5, Borman, Lovell and Anders will be the most thoroughly prepared adventurers ever to have dared the unknown...
...mission to the moon, Apollo 8 will carry a three-man crew that is unusually well qualified, both by experience and temperament, for the pioneering flight: they are Veterans Frank Borman and James Lovell, both 40, and Rookie William Anders...
...December 1965, Borman and Lovell were pilots of Gemini 7 on man's longest space flight - a 3301-hours' orbital mission that included the history-making rendezvous with Gemini 6. Both took their long confinement in the cramped spacecraft with equanimity and quiet humor, and displayed competence and stability that helped win them their Apollo 8 assignments. Eleven months later, Lovell .and Edwin Aldrin were the crew on the 941-hour flight of Gemini 12, the last U.S. manned flight before Apollo 7. Between them, Lovell and Borman have a total of 7551 hours in space, about...
...Borman has been air-oriented from youth, when he built model airplanes and sold newspapers to pay for flying lessons. A West Pointer who opted for the Air Force, he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech, broke an eardrum during a practice dive-bombing run and for a while was certain that he could never again take to the air-let alone fly to the moon. But when his eardrum healed completely, he resumed flying, and now has a total of more than 5,400 hours of flying time. Between training sessions...