frank borman was done when he landed. it was like he didn't have a good time. he did.it wasn't like he did realize the ethical nature of the nation. he did. he also knew this was my cold war mission. i'm home from the mission. at the end of the book we have to serve on the deck of the carrier and he gives his apollo spacecraft and affectionate pat and walks off and doesn't look back. he was a man with a patriotic job to do and he did it. bill anders would've loved to a con back into space but he also knew that the byzantine nasa flight rules what it meant if he ever did get assigned to another mission, the odds are very good that he would've been in the center seat of the apollo which would've meant he would've gone up to the minute again and still not gone to land, that two other people would've landed. he was offered a position in government as a consultant or as an advisor to then-president nixon, and even went into private industry and he was very happy doing that. jim lovell, he was halfway to the moon and he's a baby i'm coming back. he just knew what he wanted t

frank borman is and was a patriot. frank borman trained to be a fighter pilot. he went to west point. he joined the air force. he wanted to fight in korea. to him, this was his country needed him, and he was ready to fight. he was grounded for about a year due to a burst eardrum. his window of opportunity passed to fight in korea, and when this opportunity to be an astronaut and to fly this improbable mission was presented to him, he knew that this was his chance to fight a very important battle in the cold war. to go out to win and to come home. for him, it was a mission. all three guys knew about the ethical nature of the mission. they knew this was not just for nasa, not just for america, but for the pee cease at large. -- species at large. they were going to make us, homo sapiens, a two-world species. they were aware of that, but they all came to it with different personal agendas. >> and that's ooh actually brought out really nicely in their mission patch which was designed by jim lovell, really that drawing things together, drawing the earth and the moon c