Apollo 8 Reunion, 4/23/09.
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- In honor of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Centennial and the 50th anniversary of the creation of NASA, the LBJ Library and Museum hosted an Apollo 8 Reunion on April 23, 2009. The Reunion honors not only the three astronauts on that historic mission, but also the men and women on the ground who made their illustrious journey a reality.
The evening panel featured Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders. Former NBC News anchor Jim Hartz served as moderator.
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.
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?
Do you know Joe Trusty?
@@MrDoneboy I do not. There are some Trustys that I dont know
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.
Apollo 8 was my favorite mission
+Paul Crewe Many Apollo people have said that, many times.
He gave great credit to God during his Christmas greeting a quarter-million miles from home. Bless him for his service and humanity.
You're not alone...mine too!!!
Oh, that launch! How different than the relatively tame Gemini lift offs.
These are the kind of men we need to run for president! 😳😳
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.
Six billion astronauts and not 6 million. Lovell was talking about the population of earth at that time in 1968.
"You can only look out the window and say ooh and ahh for so long." lol
Borman is brutally honest.
Apollo 8 was a real badass mission. Three supermen.
@Roger Clemons You're just a figment of our imagination.
@Roger Clemons phantom patriots indeed.
Are these guys aware that we can't leave low earth orbit? 💫
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.
Such diverse personalities, but all men of strong character.
These guys were and are my heroes
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!
+Raymond Eaton Yes. They were indeed great times, and the greatest Americans.
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.
Kraft, Von Braun, and thousands of great engineers. Our schools have failed, totally.
Same here. I could name all Astronauts then, and most of the Dallas Cowboys. I never, ever watch NFL now, ever.
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
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.
You’re forgetting the crew of Apollo 1 who were all married.
@@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.
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!!
Love these guys all three of them this mission was 👏🏽 awesome!! So glad I grew up in that era and remember these heroes.
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.
Col. Borman inspired me to get into the cockpit . I wish I could thank him personally .
Nathan Kenaston
He picked that coin up at the gas station 5 minutes before giving it to you. :-)
Dave Carsley
And he never went to the moon.
I couldn't leave the computer. So interesting!. Thanks for posting!
loved every minute of it!
Oh what a treat! Thank you for this.
Frank Borman does not hold bac. Well worth watching.
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.
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,.
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.
THE ASTRONAUTS ALL KNOW THE DANGER INVOLVED IN THEIR MISSIONS....
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.
Borman sure tells it like it is. Funny guy.
Definitely one of the best if not the best reunions there has been. Funny, informative, honest, with wonderful comradery.
God Bless these American Hero's!
awesome. Thank you
Borman is a straight up badass
At doing what..making up stories?
All three of them were.
Men of courage. How few now exist.
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
@@johnhearn5043 PREACH!
this was awesome. Thank you..
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.
Garland English - They did not land on the Moon.
Hero's God bless them and the great USA from one of millions BRIT fans .
Frank Borman is so grumpy. I like it.
For peace on earth, the world of television need more Jim´s Hartz ´s
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.
What a great interview and crew :)
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.
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.
I think this is the crankiest I've seen Borman. But you come to expect it.
Fabulons men
these guys are still as sharp as a razor :)
One of the best astronaut interviews ever.
Fantastic Odisseia!Congratulations to the Crew!
I love that Anders is the Lunar Module Pilot, when Apollo 8 flew without a Lunar Module!
They had the lunar module in the studio next door. LOL Only kidding.
amazing interview.
At 30:28 - I can see that young lady going into space one day! She is totally engrossed in the discussion,.
The hero’s of my youth!
Christmas Eve 1968 .
How good was that, only just seen it !
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.
Bless you Frank Borman.
That was freakin' excellent. :)
Absolutely sad that these three of my favorite Americans didn't get to walk on the moon.
Launching the shuttle on a frozen Florida morning, was the greatest, stupid moment in NASA's history!
That was the same Launch Fever that killed Grissom, White, and Chaffee.
10:55 Start here.
Borman spoke the truth, about Glenn's shuttle flight!
Giants.
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.
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.
“I would ask you to stand..” camera operator completely forgets to let us see those who actually stood...
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
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!
Bill Anders should have ran for public office!
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
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.
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.
I only counted two - never went to the moon - nuts here.
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Is there a nut shortage?
+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.
hmm good idea
I wish more people would do that. I tire of comments sections on apollo videos full of their nonsense
@@DONALDSON51 I think they're funny.
43:45 😂😂
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.
Oh, aren't you one brilliant expert?
I never knew LBJ Library held comedy theater events.
1:20:25 Once again school teachers prove they have no d--mned clue about how the world works.