"Borman had a Tolstoy quotation on a wall in his office: "The only legitimate happiness is honest hard work and the surmounting of obstacles.""
— Frank Borman

January 1, 1970

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"Frank Borman, astronaut who led Nasa’s Apollo 8 mission around the moon, dies aged 95", The Times (10 November 2023); Tolstoy quotation is from Tolstoy's Pacifism by Colm McKeogh, p. 83.