U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Frank Borman Dies

A career Air Force officer from 1950, his assignments included service as a fighter pilot, an operational pilot and instructor, an experimental test pilot and an assistant professor of thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at West Point.

A hero of the American Space Odyssey, Frank Borman led the first team of American
astronauts to circle the moon, extending man’s horizons into space. Frank Frederick Borman II was born on March 14, 1928, at 2162 West 11th Avenue in Gary, Indiana, USA.