Frank Borman's Apollo 8 Mission

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What interests me most about Frank Borman was his mission. As commander of the Apollo 8 mission, Borman was under special pressure to make sure the mission was completed. According to PBS's "NOVA", Borman was told that the CIA had gotten wind of a planned Soviet flight around the moon, and NASA wanted Borman and his crew to achieve that goal before the Soviets. This was part of the intense "space race" between America and the Soviet Union. Borman's exact words:
"Any idea that the Apollo program was a great voyage of exploration or scientific endeavor is nuts. That wasn't the primary mission; the primary mission was to go to the moon ahead of the Russians and meet the President's mandate."
Borman later says that the Apollo program only existed