NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday.
He died on November 7 in Billings, Montana.
“Today we remember one of NASA’s finest,” agency Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.
“His lifelong love of aviation and exploration was surpassed by his love for his wife, Susan.”
Born on March 14, 1928, in Gary, Indiana, he began his career in the U.S. Air Force, where he flew as a fighter pilot, test pilot, and became an assistant professor of thermodynamics at West Point.
But he will be remembered as a pioneer of space exploration.