Alan Bean has died

“the more I thought about it the more I realized there were young men and women at NASA in the astronaut office that could fly the shuttle as good as I could or better, but I was the only one interested in trying to do this other job.”

That other job was to paint.

Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Astronaut Who Walked On The Moon, Dies At 86

Bean was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing, in 1969. Later in life, as a painter, he chronicled the people and experience of the Apollo program.

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