Astronaut who led humanity's first mission around the Moon dead at 95

Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2023

Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut 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 passed away on November 7 in Billings, Montana. "Today we remember one of NASA's best," said the agency's administrator Bill Nelson, in a statement. "His lifelong love for aviation and exploration was only