Frank Borman citations

Frank Borman, né le 14 mars 1928 à Gary dans l'Indiana, est un Colonel de L'US Air Force devenu astronaute américain de la NASA, connu notamment pour sa participation à la mission Apollo 8, la première à survoler la Lune.

✵ 14. mars 1928
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“Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.”

Prayer from Apollo 8, on Christmas Day (25 December 1968)
Contexte: Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.
Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

“There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things.”

Source: Countdown: An Autobiography (1988), p. 214
Contexte: There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things. This was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, and I handed Jim and Bill their lines from the Holy Scriptures.

“This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible.”

Source: Countdown: An Autobiography (1988), p. 454
Contexte: This must be what God sees. I was absolutely awestruck, not so much at what we had accomplished but at what made the accomplishment possible. A machine produced by more than three hundred thousand Americans was circling the moon with three human beings aboard for the first time in history.

“Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.”

Prayer from Apollo 8, on Christmas Day (25 December 1968)
Contexte: Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.
Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.
And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”

The Growing Bankruptcy Brigade, TIME magazine (18 October 1982) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949605,00.html

“A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.”

Flying Lessons https://www.faasafety.gov/files/gslac/library/documents/2009/Jan/31383/FLYING%20LESSONS%20090108.pdf, Federal Aviation Administration (8 January 2008)

“"God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good."
And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”

Last lines of the Apollo 8 Genesis reading, and adding his own closing to the message from Apollo 8 crew, as they celebrated becoming the first humans to enter lunar orbit, Christmas Eve (24 December 1968) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html

“God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.”

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.
Last lines of the Apollo 8 Genesis reading, and adding his own closing to the message from Apollo 8 crew, as they celebrated becoming the first humans to enter lunar orbit, Christmas Eve (24 December 1968) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo8_xmas.html

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