Susan Bugbee – Tucson High School 1947
Tucson High Badgers quarterback Frank Borman of the undefeated 1945 Arizona state champions.
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Courtesy of the Tucson High yearbook student editor & staff
Courtesy of the Tucson High yearbook student editor & staff
Courtesy of the Tucson High yearbook student editor & staff
Frank at West Point circa 1947
Tucson beauty queen Susan Bugbee, age nineteen.
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Susan Bugbee – Graduation from Tucson high school
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Shortly after Frank and Susan were married, July 1950.
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Susan and Frank shortly after their deployment to the Philippines
Frederick and Edwin show Susan a few of their specimens from their makeshift zoo at their home on Edwards airforce base.
Frank Borman, Official NASA Photo
Susan just before Frank’s Gemini 7 mission
Susan Borman and Marilyn Lovell during their husband’s record-breaking Gemini 7 flight
Frederick assembles a model airplane under the watchful of Frank and Edwin.
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Frank and Susan wash the car for the Life Magazine photographer.
Frank and Susan getting ready for one of many public events they attended as “Team Borman.”
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Breakfast at the Borman household.
Susan and the boys watch the launch of Gemini 7, December 1965.
Susan celebrates with family and friends following Frank’s successful splashdown after the Gemini 7 mission, December 1965
Frank prior to the 1968 launch of Apollo 8
Susan and Frank shooting hoops during some rare family time with son Edwin.
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Susan with her mother, Ruth Bugbee.
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Frank’s parents, Edwin “Rusty” and Marjorie Borman.
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US Air Force captain Frank Borman in the cockpit of his F-84F at Luke Air Force Base, 1951.
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The Borman family, 1968
A moment of reflection prior to Frank’s Apollo 8 mission
Susan watching the launch of Apollo 8 with Edwin, Frederick, and Marjorie Borman, December 21, 1968.
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A composed Susan Borman speaks to reporters shortly after Apollo 8 entered Earth orbit
Susan with the boys, December 1968
Tense moments during Apollo 8
Susan Borman and Valerie Anders receive word that Apollo 8 is headed home after emerging from the far side of the Moon for the last time, December 25, 1968.
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The Borman’s on their 1969 world tour following the Apollo 8 mission.
Frank as CEO of Eastern Airlines.
Frank was Eastern Airlines spokesman in many of the company ads during his tenure as CEO from 1975 to 1986.
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Frank and Susan on the tarmac just before strapping into their two-seat P-51 Mustang.
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Frank and Susan arrive at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors, 1992.
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Susan poses in front of Su Su II wearing her beloved turquoise jewelry.
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The Borman’s, Lovell’s and Anders’ at the Borman Ranch on the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 8.
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Frank with his vintage 1954 USAF T-34 trainer still flying on the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 8, December 2018.
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One of the last cards Susan was able to write to Frank before her Alzheimer’s advanced.
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