Gord Green
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 Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 2:21 pm Post subject: R.I.P Alan Bean , Moonwalker |
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One of the U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon has died. Alan Bean died on Saturday in Houston after a short illness. He was 86.
With Bean's death, only four moonwalkers are still alive (Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt).
Bean was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 12, which made the second lunar landing in 1969.
He flew in space one more time, but he really made his mark in what he did after NASA. Bean spent 31 hours on the moon, collecting lunar samples and deploying several experiments with mission commander Pete Conrad. They also checked up on Surveyor 3, which had landed two years earlier.
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