APOLLO TWELVE HIGHLITE #34: ASTRONAUT ALAN BEAN COMMENTS ON VIEW OF THE MOON

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APOLLO TWELVE HIGHLITE #34: ASTRONAUT ALAN BEAN COMMENTS ON VIEW OF THE MOON

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Bean, Alan, 1932-2018

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Alan Bean (b. March 15, 1932, Wheeler, TX-d. May 26, 2018, Houston, TX) is an American former naval officer and Naval 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 thirty-seven years in November 1969. He made his second and final ...