Apollo 8 Reunion, 4/23/09.

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  • @lancetrusty1058
    @lancetrusty1058 7 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    I know Frank Borman personally as he is one of my neighbors. His personality is just as forward as you see here. He is very down to earth (forgive the pun) and one of the funniest guys I know. He isnt known as Col Borman around here. He is known as Frank. He is a great man that did great things for Aviation and Space programs. Hats off to him and the crew of Apollo 8.

    • @MrDoneboy
      @MrDoneboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Frank is obviously a conservative. I hope that he and his family are doing well! BTW...Are you related to Joe Trusty from Katy, Texas?

    • @MrDoneboy
      @MrDoneboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you know Joe Trusty?

    • @lancetrusty1058
      @lancetrusty1058 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrDoneboy I do not. There are some Trustys that I dont know

  • @michellebuckley889
    @michellebuckley889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The more I listen to Frank Borman the more I fall in love with him.
    Thank you Apollo 8 you saved much more than 1968!!

  • @bobk77
    @bobk77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I was 9 years old when they flew Apollo 8. What a magical night Christmas Eve 1968. It inspired me to fly planes at 16 and get my pilot license at 17.

  • @beatlejim64
    @beatlejim64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My favorite Apollo mission. These guy s were the first to leave earth's orbit...the first to go into deep space...and the first humans to fly to the moon.

  • @stonewall01
    @stonewall01 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "You can only look out the window and say ooh and ahh for so long." lol

  • @raymondeaton5692
    @raymondeaton5692 8 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    When I was 7 years old the only NFL football player I could name was Roman Gabriel, but I could name every astronaut in the Apollo program. Man those were great times!

    • @dks13827
      @dks13827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Raymond Eaton Yes. They were indeed great times, and the greatest Americans.

    • @reedpaseur6167
      @reedpaseur6167 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes they were great times. Every boy was building model rockets in solidarity with Apollo. Chris Kraft was a real genius - the unsung hero of Apollo in my mind.

    • @dks13827
      @dks13827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kraft, Von Braun, and thousands of great engineers. Our schools have failed, totally.

    • @dks13827
      @dks13827 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here. I could name all Astronauts then, and most of the Dallas Cowboys. I never, ever watch NFL now, ever.

    • @davecarsley8773
      @davecarsley8773 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Raymond Eaton
      Wanna know what's sad? I'm 31 (born 1985) and I can name all of the original 7, Gemini, and Apollo Astronauts as well as many of the mission controllers and administrators through the 60 and 70s. This is sad because they ARE my heroes. There aren't really any better choices from my own generation

  • @davecarsley8773
    @davecarsley8773 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I really love Commander Lovell's choice of words when talking about the perspective of seeing the earth from the moon:
    _"...how small a body we all lived [on] and that it was really sort of like a spacecraft with six million astronauts all striving for the same things out of life."_
    I feel like Carl Sagan would approve.

    • @catprincess9
      @catprincess9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Six billion astronauts and not 6 million. Lovell was talking about the population of earth at that time in 1968.

  • @SWalker71
    @SWalker71 9 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Apollo 8 was my favorite mission

    • @dks13827
      @dks13827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Paul Crewe Many Apollo people have said that, many times.

    • @peoplehavetherights
      @peoplehavetherights 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      He gave great credit to God during his Christmas greeting a quarter-million miles from home. Bless him for his service and humanity.

    • @beatlejim64
      @beatlejim64 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're not alone...mine too!!!

    • @pajasa62
      @pajasa62 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh, that launch! How different than the relatively tame Gemini lift offs.

  • @MarvelousLXVII
    @MarvelousLXVII 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I would have to say my favorite Apollo crew. Borman and Anders are absolutely perfect with Lovell as the straight man. Awesome interview. A side only Apollo crew who stayed married to their original wives.

    • @ohheyitskevinc
      @ohheyitskevinc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You’re forgetting the crew of Apollo 1 who were all married.

    • @catprincess9
      @catprincess9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ohheyitskevinc What he meant was being married to the same women for all their lives (they are all in their nineties). And this is despite the demands of the job of an astronaut. The Apollo 1 astronauts died during training while still young (the oldest one was 40). They didn't live long enough for their marriages to break apart, which is pretty common among astronauts.

  • @tarful58
    @tarful58 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love these guys all three of them this mission was 👏🏽 awesome!! So glad I grew up in that era and remember these heroes.

  • @tarful58
    @tarful58 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These are the kind of men we need to run for president! 😳😳

  • @kuluswick
    @kuluswick 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I couldn't leave the computer. So interesting!. Thanks for posting!

  • @teeniebeenie8774
    @teeniebeenie8774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i get queazy in my tummy, when i think of the 3 men up there so far away in that capsule, god bless them and all at NASA,, ,,I lived in Houston aand we were so proud of them.

  • @robinmccullars4971
    @robinmccullars4971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh what a treat! Thank you for this.

  • @mrFalconlem
    @mrFalconlem 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Wow, Frank Borman really let his feelings out, I agree about Christa McAuliffe. But I also agree that she took the risk and knew something might happen. I'm glad Frank Borman finally called John Glenn out on his flight. Only a fellow astronaut could say what we were all thinking. However, I also agree it was a gutsy thing for John Glenn to actually go on the flight. Thanks for posting.

    • @nancydavis1391
      @nancydavis1391 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      THE ASTRONAUTS ALL KNOW THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THEIR MISSIONS....

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nancy Davis - I disagree. I don’t think any astronaut knew of the vulnerability of the leading edges of the Shuttle wings. NASA said they were indestructable, until they weren’t.

  • @user-ky6vw5up9m
    @user-ky6vw5up9m 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These guys were and are my heroes

  • @yoddeb
    @yoddeb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Apollo 8 was a real badass mission. Three supermen.

    • @GGE47
      @GGE47 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Roger Clemons You're just a figment of our imagination.

    • @ianwilds3139
      @ianwilds3139 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Roger Clemons phantom patriots indeed.

    • @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504
      @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are these guys aware that we can't leave low earth orbit? 💫

  • @jmacptv
    @jmacptv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For peace on earth, the world of television need more Jim´s Hartz ´s

  • @freespeechsmuggler3308
    @freespeechsmuggler3308 10 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Such diverse personalities, but all men of strong character.

  • @jmjaxson
    @jmjaxson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Definitely one of the best if not the best reunions there has been. Funny, informative, honest, with wonderful comradery.

  • @nathankenaston1009
    @nathankenaston1009 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    My dad and I helped repair an old '37 Dodge for some guy and it turned out to be Frank Borman. He gave me and my brother a metal coin that they carried with them around the moon.

    • @machia-mw1lm
      @machia-mw1lm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Col. Borman inspired me to get into the cockpit . I wish I could thank him personally .

    • @davecarsley8773
      @davecarsley8773 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nathan Kenaston
      He picked that coin up at the gas station 5 minutes before giving it to you. :-)

    • @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504
      @pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dave Carsley
      And he never went to the moon.

  • @AlWalsermusic
    @AlWalsermusic 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    loved every minute of it!

  • @Tramseskumbanan
    @Tramseskumbanan 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Borman is brutally honest.

  • @GoodOlTimesOnlyGayer
    @GoodOlTimesOnlyGayer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great Men from an age of wonder. As as a small boy not yet at school - one of my earliest memories on a rainy Christmas Day. Part of 11 or 12 years of exploration's greatest age,.

  • @CRISIS550166
    @CRISIS550166 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Frank Borman does not hold bac. Well worth watching.

  • @molesworth2
    @molesworth2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful to hear these brave, warm, hugely skilled men talk about such a fascinating mission. I was nine when they orbited the moon, and I can remember the famous Christmas Eve broadcast. It lit a fire of enthusiasm in me for space exploration that has never gone out. I've just read Jeffery Kluger's book "Apollo 8", and it's wonderful stuff with some intriguing little details I never knew before. Highly recommended, and this video is a wonderful complement to it.

  • @pigjubby1
    @pigjubby1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Men of courage. How few now exist.

    • @johnhearn5043
      @johnhearn5043 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      a monumental waste, feed the hungry, house the homeless.
      health care for the poor.
      let's help people in need not
      corporations with God like CEOs

    • @itsfrediguess7844
      @itsfrediguess7844 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnhearn5043 PREACH!

  • @ScotsmaninUtah
    @ScotsmaninUtah 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7


    awesome. Thank you

  • @danielbixel8633
    @danielbixel8633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think this is the crankiest I've seen Borman. But you come to expect it.

  • @smacdiesel
    @smacdiesel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of the best astronaut interviews ever.

  • @will.a.benjamin
    @will.a.benjamin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Borman sure tells it like it is. Funny guy.

  • @evelynmoore2613
    @evelynmoore2613 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On May 14, 2016, they are going to appear together for "An Evening with Apollo 8," a fundraiser for Bill Anders' Heritage Flight Museum in Burlington, WA. Check it out -- it's an amazing chance to see all three of these living legends in person. Tickets will be going on sale soon.

  • @trevorcox1808
    @trevorcox1808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hero's God bless them and the great USA from one of millions BRIT fans .

  • @bradf.perdew8697
    @bradf.perdew8697 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    this was awesome. Thank you..

  • @Sherpaful
    @Sherpaful 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    God Bless these American Hero's!

  • @GGE47
    @GGE47 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I will never forget the Apollo 8 flight. It was such a huge step to finally land men on the moon. Frank Borman and Jim Lovell joked about their Gemini 7 14 day flight which was three years earlier, but at least they had company,Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford on Gemini 6,the first rendezvous in space. Gemini 6 didn't have a mission when their Agena rocket never reached orbit. They decide to combine it with Gemini 7.As for Apollo 8, I was fascinated by the idea of it,until it came time to go around the other side of the moon.Then I was really nervous knowing there was nothing we could do if something went wrong.I actually was wondering for the first time in my life if we were doing the right thing,going to the moon.Strange what fear can do to someone. Later after emerging from the other side of the moon made it all worth it.That night I was awed by them reading from Genesis, going back to the beginning.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Garland English - They did not land on the Moon.

  • @stuckie3916
    @stuckie3916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Borman is a straight up badass

  • @WLDB
    @WLDB 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Frank Borman is so grumpy. I like it.

  • @goodhorsehymn
    @goodhorsehymn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love that Anders is the Lunar Module Pilot, when Apollo 8 flew without a Lunar Module!

    • @chrisst8922
      @chrisst8922 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They had the lunar module in the studio next door. LOL Only kidding.

  • @bertkerry2622
    @bertkerry2622 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At 30:28 - I can see that young lady going into space one day! She is totally engrossed in the discussion,.

  • @AirborneAnt
    @AirborneAnt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a great interview and crew :)

  • @repairitdontreplaceit
    @repairitdontreplaceit 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    these guys are still as sharp as a razor :)

  • @ernestoenriquecervantesalv6176
    @ernestoenriquecervantesalv6176 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Buzz Aldrin y Jim Lovell son mis astronautas favoritos, ¡los mejores!. Son a las personas que te gustaría tener como amigos y...............a tu lado en caso de desastre.

  • @104thDIVTimberwolf
    @104thDIVTimberwolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've had the privilege of sitting inside of an Apollo capsule and when you consider dangers involved with this flight, it's really amazing they had room for the big brass ones these guys must have had.
    We need more honest-to-God heroes like these gentlemen and I really don't see Generation Snowflake providing the. God, I hope I'm wrong.

  • @cdrbmw
    @cdrbmw 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    amazing interview.

  • @mkii1964
    @mkii1964 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The hero’s of my youth!

  • @PauloNunoLeca
    @PauloNunoLeca 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic Odisseia!Congratulations to the Crew!

  • @rona5328
    @rona5328 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely sad that these three of my favorite Americans didn't get to walk on the moon.

  • @JulieBienvenu
    @JulieBienvenu 9 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Fabulons men

  • @machia-mw1lm
    @machia-mw1lm 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Christmas Eve 1968 .

  • @tonyknight9912
    @tonyknight9912 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How good was that, only just seen it !

  • @MrDoneboy
    @MrDoneboy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Launching the shuttle on a frozen Florida morning, was the greatest, stupid moment in NASA's history!

    • @104thDIVTimberwolf
      @104thDIVTimberwolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That was the same Launch Fever that killed Grissom, White, and Chaffee.

  • @larky368
    @larky368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was interesting what Borman said about Glenn's flight being political and frivolous. It needs to be pointed out however how unfair it was when Nasa decided to ground him after becoming a National Hero because they thought it would hurt the program if he ever died in future missions.

  • @duncanedwards036
    @duncanedwards036 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was freakin' excellent. :)

  • @dandeprop
    @dandeprop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This crew was named 'Man of the Year' in 1968 by TIME Magazine. Today, the same 'publication' (if we choose to dignify them by still calling them that) gives the same title to a 16-year-old 'Climate Activist' who is not old enough to know her rear end from a proverbial hole-in-the-ground. It doesn't bode well.

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dave Mohr - Remember the “Person of the Year” designation is not an endorsement. It is given to a person of consequence, for good or bad. I’m hoping the 2020 designee will be Dr. Fauci.

  • @SteveBsh
    @SteveBsh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The moderator annoyed me. Also annoyed Frank I think. First he made a comment about how it wasn't a memorable flight which is ridiculous. Then he said how it was hit by lightning which is completely incorrect that was Apollo 12. He kept saying we will get to 13 in a minute which he never did and he interrupted Bill Anders and said a lot of dumb stuff no one was there to hear him speak

  • @Realbillball
    @Realbillball 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was a truly risky mission. The right stuff. Too bad none of them ever got to walk on the lunar surface. It would have been well deserved for every one of them.

  • @jshepard152
    @jshepard152 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10:55 Start here.

  • @MrDoneboy
    @MrDoneboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Borman spoke the truth, about Glenn's shuttle flight!

  • @miscellaneousetc.4280
    @miscellaneousetc.4280 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bless you Frank Borman.

  • @ohheyitskevinc
    @ohheyitskevinc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “I would ask you to stand..” camera operator completely forgets to let us see those who actually stood...

  • @MrDoneboy
    @MrDoneboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Look at Borman's face at 13:06, when the reporter erroneously said that the vehicle weighed 7.5 million pounds at launch! That was the amount of thrust, that it took to launch the vehicle!

  • @MrDoneboy
    @MrDoneboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bill Anders should have ran for public office!

  • @bodiew7368
    @bodiew7368 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    when they started talking about the smell they were about to say something but he said I promised not to talk about that, sounds like someone may have crapped their pants

  • @riparianlife97701
    @riparianlife97701 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Giants.

  • @bogglerful
    @bogglerful 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I only counted two - never went to the moon - nuts here.
    .
    Is there a nut shortage?

    • @harryandruschak2843
      @harryandruschak2843 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Norwood Partz Not for me. I troll-block every anti-NASA cockroach I come across in the comments sections. Over the months, this has improved the signal-to-noise ratio.

    • @soopahsoopah
      @soopahsoopah 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hmm good idea

    • @Sonofdonald2024
      @Sonofdonald2024 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wish more people would do that. I tire of comments sections on apollo videos full of their nonsense

    • @OogieWa
      @OogieWa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sonofdonald2024 I think they're funny.

  • @ralfrene7034
    @ralfrene7034 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Von Braun-did the Lunar rocket, and Frank Borman-exact copy of the "Lunar" rocket.
    Brown's rocket-failed all tests in 1968, but the rocket was launched successfully with Bormann's Cape Canaveral and fall quietly into the Atlantic.

    • @Realbillball
      @Realbillball 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh, aren't you one brilliant expert?

  • @SimplyTakuma
    @SimplyTakuma 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    43:45 😂😂

  • @johnspencer3994
    @johnspencer3994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:20:25 Once again school teachers prove they have no d--mned clue about how the world works.

  • @ianwilds3139
    @ianwilds3139 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never knew LBJ Library held comedy theater events.