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Alan Bean
 
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Alan Bean |
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Born on: |
15 Mar 1932 |
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Join NASA in: |
17 Oct 1963 |
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Current status: |
Retired 26 Feb 1981 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Apollo 12 |
LMP |
14.11. - 24.11.1969 |
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Skylab 3 |
Cmdr |
28.07. - 25.09.1973 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Alan Bean was one of the
third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963.
He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo
9 missions.
Captain Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, man’s
second lunar landing. In November 1969, Captain Bean and
Captain Pete Conrad landed in the moon’s Ocean of Storms—after
a flight of some 250,000 miles. They explored the lunar
surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments, and
installed the first nuclear power generator station on the
moon to provide the power source. Captain Richard Gordon
remained in lunar orbit photographing landing sites for
future missions.
Captain Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II
(SL-3), July 29 to September 25, 1973. With him on the
59-day, 24,400,000 mile world record setting flight were
scientist-astronaut Dr. Owen K. Garriott and Marine Corps
Lieutenant Colonel Jack R. Lousma. Mission II accomplished
150% of its pre-mission forecast goals.
On his next assignment, Captain Bean was backup spacecraft
commander of the United States flight crew for the joint
American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Captain Bean has logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in
space—of which 10 hours and 26 minutes were spent in EVAs
on the moon and in earth orbit. Captain Bean has flown 27
types of military aircraft as well as many civilian
airplanes. He has logged more than 7,145 hours flying time—including
4,890 hours in jet aircraft. Captain Bean retired from the
Navy in October 1975 but continued as head of the
Astronaut Candidate Operations and Training Group within
the Astronaut Office in a civilian capacity.
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