The Commander of the second human spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program was born in 1928.
Apollo 8, the second human spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. 
 The three-astronaut crew  Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders  became the first humans to: travel beyond low Earth orbit; escape Earth's gravity; see Earth as a whole planet; enter the gravity well of another celestial body (Earth's moon); orbit another celestial body (Earth's moon); directly see the far side of the Moon with their own eyes; witness an Earthrise; escape the gravity of another celestial body (Earth's moon); and re-enter the gravitational well of Earth. 
Frank Frederick Borman II (born March 14, 1928), (Col, USAF, Ret.) 
