Frank Borman commanded the first space mission that circled the moon He wasn rsquo t impressed The trip took two days both ways Frank got motion sickness and threw up He said being weightless was cool mdash for thirty seconds Then he got used to it Up close he found the moon drab and pockmarked with craters His crew took pictures of the gray wasteland then became bored Frank went where no one had gone before It wasn rsquo t enough If he quickly tired of an experience that was out of this world perhaps we should lower our expectations
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