Quotes About Borman

Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, "sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.

Western took a drink and passed the bottle back. Borman drank. The brown liquor boiled in the bottle. When he lowered it the bottle was a third gone and his eyes were watering. He wiped his mouth and held the bottle out. Hell, Western. I've drunk worse liquor than that. Here.

But Borman does remember one telegram—from a sender he didn't know—and he still likes to talk about it. The telegram said, simply, "Thank you, Apollo 8. You saved 1968." That, Borman realized, made him feel happier than gazing up at the moon ever did.