A retired United States Air Force USAF colonel aeronautical engineer test pilot businessman rancher and NASA astronaut He was the commander of Apollo 8 the first mission to fly around the Moon and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first of 24 humans to do so for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor As of 2021 he is the oldest living former American astronaut eleven days older than Lovell
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