Apollo 8 Astronaut Borman Lauds Aerospace Projects

Former Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman yesterday afternoon described what he called "man's conquest of space," and justified the existence of the United States aerospace program to fellow members of the Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP).

Borman is now an executive of Eastern Airlines and will return to that post after completing the 13-week Business School program. He resigned from NASA soon after returning from the flight of Apollo 8.

Borman said yesterday that his "obligation to explain the importance and value of his career as a astronaut" resulted in a recent tour of 17 college campuses.

When asked about the present atmosphere at Harvard, he said that he found it "more reassuring than last year," when he visited here.

Supremacy

Dofending man's landing on the moon and the Apollo projects, Borman said that they fostered the technological supremacy and the scientific development of the United States.

On a more personal level, Borman explained that when he looked back at the earth from outer space, he realized the meaning of Archibald MacLeish's line, "We're riders on the earth together."

The AMP, offered three times each year to executives in government and industry, attracts businessmen to study current managerial theory. One hundred sixty executives are currently enrolled in the program.