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Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3 , and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon .
Jun 6, 2024 · Alan Bean was an American astronaut and lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 mission (November 14-22, 1969), during which he became the fourth person to walk on the Moon. After retiring from NASA he pursued a career as a painter, specializing in subjects drawn from his spaceflight experience.
May 26, 2018 · Alan Bean, who became the fourth man to walk on the moon and turned to painting years later to tell the story of NASA’s Apollo missions as they began receding into history, died on Saturday at...
May 26, 2018 · Alan Bean walked on the moon on Apollo 12, commanded the second Skylab crew and then resigned after 18 years as an astronaut to paint the remarkable worlds and sights he had seen. Bean was lunar module pilot on the November 1969 Apollo 12 mission, the second moon landing.
May 26, 2018 · Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker and Artist, Dies at 86. HOUSTON, Texas — Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, has died. Bean, 86, died on Saturday, May 26, at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Jun 18, 2024 · AS12-46-6728 (19 Nov. 1969) — Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, is about to step off the ladder of the Lunar Module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in extravehicular activity (EVA).
May 26, 2018 · HOUSTON, Texas — Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, has died. Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during an extravehicular activity.
May 26, 2018 · Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon who later chronicled the experience as an artist, died Saturday in Houston after a short illness. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module...
Former Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the moon and later turned to painting to chronicle the moon landings on canvas, has died. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module pilot for the second moon landing mission in November 1969.
Jun 11, 2018 · Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean’s 1994 painting Kissing the Earth was inspired by the view as he and his team began their descent to the Moon in 1969. In November 1969, when I was six years...
