(Reuters) - American astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 12 mission and commanded a crew on the Skylab space station in 1973 before giving up his career to become a ...

Former Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, has died. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module pilot for the second moon landing mission in November 1969. He spent 31 hours ...

ALAN Bean, who has died aged 86, was a pioneering American astronaut of Scots descent who took a swatch of tartan to the moon when he landed there in 1969, a few months after Neil Armstrong’s historic ...

During Apollo 12s lunar mission, an incident occurred shortly after the astronauts landed on the Moon. Alan Bean unintentionally aimed the television camera at the Sun, resulting in irreversible ...

HOUSTON - Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon, has died. Bean, 86, died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital after he suddenly fell ill while traveling to Fort Wayne, Indiana two ...

The mishap still stands out in NASA's history. In November 1969, during his walk on the Moon, astronaut Alan Bean took an almost brand-new color television camera. Still, as he set it up, he pointed ...

On November 19th, 1969, Alan Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 12, the second Lunar Landing. In 1973, Alan again flew in space as Commander of ...

Former Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the moon and later turned to painting to chronicle the moon landings on canvas, has died. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module ...