Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Frank Borman

Frank Borman

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 24, 2019 by Wehwalt (talk) 15:50, 22 November 2019 (UTC)



Frank Borman (born March 14, 1928) is a retired United States Air Force colonel, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and businessman, and the oldest living former NASA astronaut. In 1968, he was the commander of Apollo 8, the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. A graduate of West Point, he served as an air force fighter pilot and flight instructor, and an assistant professor at West Point. He was one of five students in the first class at the Aerospace Research Pilot School, and was selected as a NASA astronaut with the second group in 1962. He set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record as commander of Gemini 7, and served on the review board for the Apollo 1 fire. He became a senior vice president at Eastern Air Lines in 1970, and later its chief executive officer and chairman of the board, leading the company through its four most profitable years before resigning in 1986. He currently owns a ranch in Montana.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Michael Collins (astronaut) on October 31; next astronaut will likely be Buzz Aldrin on January 20, 2020
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 * Promoted: 3 November 2019
 * Reasons for nomination: 51st anniversary of the Earthrise
 * Support as nominator. --- Coffee  and crumbs  03:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support, with a small tweak (per WP:MILTERMS). - Dank (push to talk) 04:39, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support great to see a few astronauts coming through TFA. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per Peacemaker. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:54, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per the above. Aoba47 (talk) 20:29, 18 November 2019 (UTC)