Astronaut Alan Bean has died. He was 86. Bean was the fourth person to walk on the moon. From NASA:
“On Nov. 19, 1969, Bean, together with Apollo 12 commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, landed on the Ocean of Storms and became the fourth human to walk on the moon. During two moonwalks Bean helped deploy several surface experiments and installed the first nuclear-powered generator station on the moon to provide the power source. He and Conrad inspected a robotic Surveyor spacecraft and collected 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of rocks and lunar soil for study back on Earth.”
Bean also commanded a Skylab Mission and after leaving NASA, he became an accomplished artist. See the NASA tribute video above.
Alan Bean, Apollo astronaut and fourth person to walk on the moon, died today at 86. He experienced something few of us will, but he shared the feeling of space travel with us through his artwork.https://t.co/YRAE85oSnX pic.twitter.com/LQi59KKHIc
— Air & Space Magazine (@airspacemag) May 26, 2018