Colonel Frank Borman led the first American astronauts to circle the moon as Commander of Apollo 8 in 1968, extending man's horizons into space. He had previously commanded Gemini 7 in the first rendezvous of spacecraft in orbit. After graduating from the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960, he helped create the astronaut training curriculum offered there when the school was renamed the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1961, and he remained until NASA selected him for the astronaut program in 1962. He logged over 10,000 hours, including more than 5,000 in jets and 746 in space. He earned his Air Force wings in 1951 and served as a fighter pilot, an operational pilot and instructor, a test pilot, and an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy. After retiring from the Air Force in 1970, he joined Eastern Airlines and became Chairman of the Board in 1976. His honors included the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the Harmon International Aviation Trophy, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the Tony Jannus Award, the Jimmy Doolittle Award, the De La Vaulx Medal, the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Award, the National Geographic Society Hubbard Medal, many other honorary degrees, awards, and service decorations, and induction into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.