Frank Borman

And just two months later, Apollo 8 did something extraordinary.

Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first human beings to leave Earth orbit and travel all the way to

the moon.

They did not land.

Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong, whose phrase, that's one step for man, one giant leap for mankind, gripped the world on July 20, 1969, was the first to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

President Jimmy Carter awarded six of these medals in 1978, which also went to Alan Shepard, the first American in space, John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman, whose 1968 mission marked humanity's first lunar voyage.

The most recent recipients were Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the first astronauts to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket.

Coming nine years after the space shuttle's programs close, their 2020 test flight to the International Space Station restored America's ability to launch crews from home soil.

The sources highlight this brilliant, hilarious example from the Gemini V mission.

Astronaut Jim Lovell was crammed into a capsule roughly the size of the front seat of a Volkswagen Beetle with Frank Borman for 14 days.

14 days in a Volkswagen Beetle.

You'd think they would want to kill each other.

But that doesn't change the fact that the astronauts saw something that they thought was weird.

Now, one of the earliest sightings was around December 4th, 1965, when Frank Borman and Jim Lovell launched on Gemini 7.

The mission was brutal.

Two men, 14 days inside a capsule roughly the size of, like, a Volkswagen Beetle.

...

Gemini VII leaning over looking at Frank Borman.

"Frank, it's time."

One just surreptitiously slipping one in someone's hand.

He was a commander.

His name was Frank Borman.

So back at the time, he was a very famous astronaut.

He was the commander of the first mission to go around the moon, Apollo 8.

He's still in New York City.

And so I see him about every once in a while, and he talks about his great friendship.

that he had with Frank Borman and he met Frank, you know, many, many years ago and he was helping him with his investments.

I don't know what Ken was doing at the time.

Richard says that Eastern dismissed the claims.

One Eastern executive was a former Apollo astronaut named Colonel Frank Borman, who, as he learned of the crash, jumped into a helicopter and raced out to the scene of the crash to help supervise rescue and recovery efforts.

Richard says, speaking about the ghost stories afterward, Colonel Borman dismissed them as being garbage.

Assuming Holland is telling the truth, the airline was probably covering up the stories so as not to lose any further credibility.

This is the unidentified object.

In addition to particles which appear to be [smacks lips] headed in a polar orbit, you heard Frank Borman say, plus, uh, Jim Lovell discussing the, the booster.

Bien, pues lo que estamos escuchando ahí es cómo el astronauta le está diciendo a la base que está viendo un objeto que es como una especie de caja que se abre y no sé qué.

Y entonces dice la palabra Boogie.