Al Bean
| Alan Bean | |
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | Alan LaVern Bean March 15, 1932 Wheeler, Texas, U.S. |
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Other occupation
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Naval aviator, test pilot |
| UT Austin, B.S. 1955 | |
| Rank |
 Captain, USN
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Time in space
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69d 15h 45min |
| Selection | 1963 NASA Group 3 |
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Total EVAs
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3 |
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Total EVA time
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10 hours 26 minutes |
| Missions | Apollo 12, Skylab 3 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | June 1981 |
| Awards |  |
Alan LaVern Bean (born March 15, 1932), (CAPT, USN, Ret.), 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 flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts.
Bean was born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, the seat of Wheeler County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle. He is of Scottish descent. As a boy, he lived in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where his father worked for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. He graduated from R. L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1950.
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