Alan Bean

Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018), (Capt, USN, Ret.), was an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. 

He was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of 37, in November 1969.

Bean died at a hospital in Houston, Texas, on May 26, 2018, from a short illness, at the age of 86.

References

Other websites

 Alan Bean Online Gallery - An authorized gallery of all his paintings
 Bean's official NASA biography
 Astronautix biography of Alan Bean
 Spacefacts biography of Alan Bean
 Bean at International Space Hall of Fame 
 Ocean of Storms with Alan Bean

 Alan Bean  at the National Aviation Hall of Fame
 Bean at Encyclopedia of Science
 Bean at Spaceacts 
 Official publisher website for Homesteading Space 

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