A true American patriot and hero died Friday. Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 Flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year. He and his crew, James Lovell and William Anders, were the first Apollo Mission to fly to the moon — and to see Earth as a distant sphere in space. Launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on December 21st, 1968, the Apollo 8 trio spent three days traveling to the moon, and slipped into lunar orbit on Christmas Eve. That night, he read from the Bible, the book of Genesis in a live telecast from the orbiter.
After they circled 10 times, on December 24th through the 27th, then, headed home. Borman wrote about how the Earth looked from space, and says astronauts shared the thought….this must be what God sees. Borman was 95 years old.
