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Alan La Vern Bean dit Al Bean, né le 15 mars 1932 à Wheeler et mort le 26 mai 2018 à Houston , est un pilote d'essais et un astronaute américain de la NASA.

Il se pose sur la Lune le 19 novembre 1969 dans le cadre de Apollo 12, deuxième mission du Programme Apollo ayant atteint le sol lunaire.

Il séjourne deux mois à bord de la station spatiale Skylab en tant que commandant de la mission Skylab 3.

Depuis le décès de Richard Gordon le 6 novembre 2017, Alan Bean était le dernier survivant de l'équipage d'Apollo 12. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. mars 1932 – 26. mai 2018
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“The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows where, is just beginning and there is nothing that can stop it.”

An Interview with Alan Bean (1992)
Contexte: The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows where, is just beginning and there is nothing that can stop it. None of us know the timetable, none of us know whether it's going to happen rapidly or it's going to happen very slowly.
Eventually, as the centuries unfold, human beings will populate all these places and maybe a thousand years from now, or maybe it's two thousand or five thousand, there will be more human beings living off the Earth than live on it. Its just going to happen and we don't need to be anxious about it. We don't need to worry that next year they decide to cut the space station. If they cut the space station next year, I hope they don't, but if they did, it's not the end of the world. We're going to eventually have a wonderful space station. Eventually there are going to be cities in space. If Chicago had been founded a hundred years later, we wouldn't even know that now. I don't know when it was founded, but if it had been a hundred years later or a hundred years earlier, right now it wouldn't make any difference. It would probably look about the same. People would be just as happy doing the same things. That's the same way with space exploration. Maybe we don't go to Mars in my lifetime, maybe we don't even go till my grandkids lifetime. That's okay. Eventually it will happen.

“Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.”

Statement on significations in his painting "Reaching for the Stars", at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Florida, USA.
After the moon, art is his mission (1997)

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