Editing Frank Borman (section)

== Retirement ==
[[File:FrankBormanJamesLovellWilliamAndersDec2008.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Borman with [[Jim Lovell]] and [[Bill Anders]] at an [[Apollo 8]] 40th anniversary event in [[San Diego]] in December 2008]]
Borman and Susan left Miami, and moved to [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]]. For a time, he was the majority owner of a Las Cruces [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] dealership founded by his son, Fred.<ref name="Astronaut in Exile" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n11_v16/ai_12926613/ |title=Auto dealers: sign of the times – The New Mexico Private 100 |last=Diven |first=William |date=November 1992 |newspaper=New Mexico Business Journal |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |access-date=February 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050529085129/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n11_v16/ai_12926613 |archive-date=May 29, 2005 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a member of the boards of directors of [[Home Depot]], [[National Geographic]], [[Outboard Marine Corporation]], [[Automotive Financial Group]], Thermo Instrument Systems and [[American Superconductor]].<ref name="jsc" /> He was CEO of Patlex Corporation, a small company that held patents in [[laser]]s, from July 1988 to August 1996.<ref>{{cite news |title=Frank Borman's New Challenge: Laser Firm Hopes Chairman's Fame Helps Its Fortunes |first=James F. |last=Peltz |date=July 26, 1988 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-26-fi-6292-story.html |access-date=September 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901205201/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-26-fi-6292-story.html |archive-date=September 1, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/76057/0000893220-96-001486.txt |title=Patlex – Post-Effective Agreement No. 1 |publisher=US Securities and Exchanges Commission |access-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530043127/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/76057/0000893220-96-001486.txt |archive-date=May 30, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> That year, he published an autobiography, ''Countdown'', co-written with [[Robert J. Serling]].<ref name="jsc" />

In 1998, Borman purchased a cattle ranch in the [[Bighorn Mountains]] of southern [[Montana]], running 4,000 head of cattle on {{convert|160000|acres}}.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Ranching by the numbers |first=Burt |last=Rutherford |date=December 20, 2017 |magazine=Beef Magazine |url=https://www.beefmagazine.com/ranching/circle-b-promotes-ranching-numbers |access-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223140153/http://www.beefmagazine.com/ranching/circle-b-promotes-ranching-numbers |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Healthier and Heavier with Hereford in the Mix |date=February 2011 |magazine=Hereford World |first=Martha Ostendorf |last=Mintz |pages=1, 14 |url=https://issuu.com/buyhereford/docs/february2011hw |access-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref> In addition to tending cattle, Borman continued his hobbies in rebuilding and modeling aircraft. Notably, he owned and painstakingly rebuilt a very rare [[World War II]] single-engine fighter, the [[Bell P-63 Kingcobra]]. It won the prestigious Grand Champion Warbird award when Borman exhibited it at [[EAA AirVenture Oshkosh|Oshkosh]] in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-19 |title=Oshkosh Cobra Flight – Four of Bell's Finest Fighters Together in the Air! |url=https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/temp-title-historic-cobra-flight-happen-oshkosh.html |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Vintage Aviation News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420010944/https://vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-news/temp-title-historic-cobra-flight-happen-oshkosh.html |archive-date=2024-04-20 |url-status=live }}</ref> He also personally flew it in airshows.<ref>{{YouTube|1tImCbFjec0|Apollo 8 Astronaut Colonel Frank Borman flies the P-63 Kingcobra}}</ref> He was a member of the Society of Antique Modelers (SAM).<ref name="ama" /> In 1998, he moved to [[Billings, Montana]].<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Billings Gazette |location=Billings, Montana |title=50 years later, Apollo 8 commander talks the Cold War, faith, divisiveness and American greatness |first=Mike |last=Kordenbrock |url=https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/years-later-apollo-commander-talks-the-cold-war-faith-divisiveness/article_40d28210-a02c-5f04-9a4a-2292c9735a19.html |date=December 24, 2018 |access-date=August 28, 2019 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719234036/https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/years-later-apollo-commander-talks-the-cold-war-faith-divisiveness/article_40d28210-a02c-5f04-9a4a-2292c9735a19.html |archive-date=July 19, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> His wife Susan suffered from [[Alzheimer's disease]], and he spent much of his time caring for her.<ref>{{cite news |first=Dan |last=Carden |date=December 21, 2018 |title=Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman's journey started in Indiana |newspaper=The (Northwest Indiana) Times |url=https://www.nwitimes.com/news/history/one-astronaut-on-first-manned-moon-mission-began-his-journey/article_ffee4ce7-4dfa-5952-9ecc-21b31d2f8029.html |access-date=September 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927132036/https://www.nwitimes.com/news/history/one-astronaut-on-first-manned-moon-mission-began-his-journey/article_ffee4ce7-4dfa-5952-9ecc-21b31d2f8029.html |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Eventually she was placed in a nursing home, where he visited her each day, until her death on September 7, 2021.<ref>{{YouTube |title=NASA Astronaut Frank Borman|id=V3zEDA-FAeg }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Susan Borman Obituary (2021) Billings Gazette|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/billingsgazette/name/susan-borman-obituary?pid=200085103|access-date=September 11, 2021|website=Legacy.com}}</ref>

Following [[John Glenn]]'s death in December 2016, Borman became the oldest living American astronaut. He was eleven days older than his Apollo&nbsp;8 crewmate, Jim Lovell.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/NASASpaceflightHistory/posts/happy-90th-birthday-to-astroanaut-frank-bormanfrank-frederick-borman-ii-born-mar/2095675467115410/ |title=Happy 90th birthday to astroanaut Frank Borman! |publisher=NASA |via=Facebook |date=March 14, 2018 |author=NASA History |access-date=September 13, 2019}}</ref> Both celebrated their 90th birthdays in March 2018.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |title=Happy 90th birthday, James Lovell, Chicago's space pioneer |date=March 23, 2018 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/23/18355711/happy-90th-birthday-james-lovell-chicago-s-space-pioneer |access-date=September 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927132033/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/23/18355711/happy-90th-birthday-james-lovell-chicago-s-space-pioneer |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Borman gave the commencement address to the University of Arizona's 2008 graduating class,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.arizona.edu/story/a-new-beginning |title=A New Beginning |date=May 18, 2008 |work=University Communications |publisher=[[University of Arizona]] |access-date=November 10, 2023 |first=Johnny |last=Cruz  }}</ref> and was reunited with Lovell and Anders for celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Apollo&nbsp;8 in December 2018 at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]] in Chicago, where the spacecraft in which they orbited the Moon is on display.<ref name="50th anniversary">{{cite magazine |magazine=Time |title=Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Moon Voyage 50 Years Later |first=Jeffrey |last=Kluger |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://time.com/5475697/apollo-8-50-years-later/ |access-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514211242/http://time.com/5475697/apollo-8-50-years-later/ |archive-date=May 14, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> "I have never said it before publicly", declared Borman, "but these two talented guys, I'm just proud that I was able to fly with them. It was a tough job done in four months, and we did a good job."<ref name="50th anniversary" />

Borman died from a stroke at the [[Billings Clinic]] on November 7, 2023, at the age of 95.<ref name=WSJobit>{{Cite news |last=Hagerty |first=James R. |title=Frank Borman, Who Led Historic Flight Around the Moon in 1968, Dies at Age 95 |url=https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/frank-borman-who-led-historic-flight-around-the-moon-in-1968-dies-at-age-95-489afa09 |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=WSJ |language=en-US|url-access = subscription}}</ref><ref name="NYT-obituary">
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| last         = Goldstein
| first        = Richard
| date         = 9 November 2023
| title        = Frank Borman, Astronaut Who Led First Orbit of the Moon, Dies at 95
| url          = https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/science/space/frank-borman-dead.html
| work         = New York Times
| access-date  = 15 November 2023
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