Tag: Alan Bean
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Upgraded Antares rocket rolled out for launch on space station resupply mission
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolled out to pad 0A Tuesday at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket rolled out to its launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore early Tuesday, setting the stage for liftoff Saturday on a resupply flight to the International Space Station…
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Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Former astronaut Alan Bean in his Houston art studio. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America’s first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, painting moonscapes and space vistas…
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Astronaut Alan Bean, Apollo 12’s artistic moonwalker, dies at 86 after sudden illness
Astronaut Alan Bean poses for a portrait in front of a mockup of NASA’s lunar module in advance of his Apollo 12 moon mission in 1969. (NASA Photo) Artist-astronaut Alan Bean, the moonwalker who saw himself as different from the rest, died today at the age of 86 at Houston Medical Hospital. Bean’s death followed…