IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO today that Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon. During the Apollo 12 mission, he executed scientific experiments and collected rocks for study back on Earth, and ...

This video excerpt from the documentary "Alan Bean: Artist/Astronaut" is on display in the National Air and Space Museum exhibition "Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, First Artist on Another World". The ...

At home in the sublime / Donald Kuspit -- Drawing the horizon / William L. Fox -- The art of the beyond / Louis A. Zona -- Alan Bean: painting Apollo 1982-2008 -- Our time / Eugene F. Kranz -- Notes ...

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, died Saturday.

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 ...

(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 ...