{"id":16080,"date":"2018-05-26T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:41:32","slug":"apollo-12-astronaut-alan-bean-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16080","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut, Moon walker and artist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/alan-bean\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Bean<\/a> has passed away at the age of 86 following an illness that came on two weeks ago while traveling :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Bean Family Obituary Statement | NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZkTyEe7DfY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bean was the lunar pilot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/afj\/ap12fj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 12 mission<\/a> and he and mission commander Pete Conrad explored the Moon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oceanus_Procellarum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean of Storms<\/a>\u00a0in November 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Bean became an accomplish artist after retiring from the astronaut corps. See galleries of his works at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Bean Art<\/a>. He had been allowed to keep the name patch from his Apollo EVA suit and it turned out to be saturated with space dust. He would crush a tiny bit of the patch into the paints used for his lunar renderings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[]<\/p>\n<p>Another NASA video about Bean:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBJiwGKUa2Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40718-alan-bean-apollo-moonwalker-artist-obituary.html\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker-Turned-Artist, Dies at 86 &#8211; Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\/?p=70511\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">And Then There Were Four | Transterrestrial Musings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/houston\/article\/Astronaut-Alan-Bean-dies-in-Houston-at-86-12946314.php\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronaut Alan Bean dies in Houston at 86 &#8211; Houston Chronicle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/05\/alan-bean-the-fourth-human-to-walk-on-the-moon-has-died\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the Moon, has died | Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronaut, Moon walker and artist,\u00a0Alan Bean has passed away at the age of 86 following an illness that came on two weeks ago while traveling :\u00a0Alan Bean Family Obituary Statement | NASA Bean was the lunar pilot on the Apollo 12 mission and he and mission commander Pete Conrad explored the Moon&#8217;s Ocean of Storms\u00a0in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean dies at 86<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-arts","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4bm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7800,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7800","url_meta":{"origin":16080,"position":0},"title":"Space Auction features Alan Bean items","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Heritage Auction\u00a0in Dallas, Texas is\u00a0holding a\u00a0Space Signature Auction\u00a0today that features many items from Alan Bean, Apollo 12 astronaut and artist: Auction #6115 Astronaut Alan Bean offers space items including pen, scissors at Dallas auction - 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