Tag: Apollo 12

  • Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86

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    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…

  • Richard Gordon, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, dies at 88

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    Dick Gordon is photographed during a debriefing in the quarantine van aboard the USS Hornet, following the end of the Apollo 12 mission on Nov. 26, 1969. Credit: NASA Richard “Dick” Gordon, a Navy test pilot-turned-astronaut who pioneered spacewalking procedures and orbited the moon, died at his home this week in California. He was 88.…