Ad Astra, Frank Borman
News on Space.com: Frank Borman has departed this green Earth for the final journey, at the ripe old age of 95.
He was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first to orbit the Moon.
He will be missed.
He was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first to orbit the Moon.
He will be missed.
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It's 1962. USAF Major Borman is taking the medical tests attending on his application to become an astronaut, and this includes a colonoscopy:Mine revealed a polyp the size of a BB shot; they took it out and, although a biopsy showed it to be non-malignant, they insisted on my staying over for additional GI tests.
I got the usual barium enema, followed by a session with some kind of X-ray machine hooked up to a small screen. They laid me on one side and started looking at the feature presentation on the screen.
One doctor exclaimed, "My God, look at that!"
Another said in the tone of a hanging judge, "You've got a mass in your belly, Major - it's a tumor. Very serious. You'll have to go into surgery this afternoon."
"You're nuts!" I retorted. "There isn't a damned thing wrong with me."
The four internists clustered around the table clucked disaprovingly at this amateur diagnosis. "Take a look at what's on the screen," the principal voice of doom ( ... )
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