Apollo Moonwalker and artist Alan Bean dies at 86

ABC Houston ^ | 05/26/2018

[DFG]

The Apollo astronaut and the fourth man to walk on the moon, Alan Bean has died at age 86.

Bean died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital.

"Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew. He was the love of my life and I miss him dearly," said Leslie Bean, Alan Bean's wife of 40 years. "A native Texan, Alan died peacefully in Houston surrounded by those who loved him."

[gibsonguy]

A member of a rather exclusive club.

[DFG]

[real saxophonist]

My dream house would have a room with nothing but Alan Bean originals.

They would be worth more than the house.

[ExGeeEye]

Present trends continuing, we will someday read that the last of the men who walked on the moon has died of old age, and that the latest electric cart has sent back another picture of a rock, just like the last million pictures of rocks.

[laplata]

RIP

[minnesota_bound]

Brian Regan - I Walked On The Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBJ6yptGqm4

[SamAdams76]

When I was a boy in the early 1970s, I used to watch the moon shots, thinking for sure that in my lifetime, we will have walked on Mars and other planets.

Over 40 years later, we have gotten no further in terms of human exploration of the solar system. In fact, we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.

[moviefan8]

We can recreate it on a computer. No need to risk life.

Seriously I hope we go back and explore. It is missing that human feeling.

[KarlInOhio]

From XKCD:

We're running a little faster than the 50th percentile for life expectancies. Only 4 of the original 12 men on the moon left and the youngest is 82 years old.

1991 James Irwin
1998 Alan Shepard
1999 Pete Conrad
2012 Neil Armstrong
2016 Edgar Mitchell
2017 Eugene Cernan
2018 John Young
2018 Alan Bean

alive Buzz Aldrin
alive Charles Duke
alive Harrison Schmitt
alive David Scott

[dragnet2]

What does that mean?

[Rummyfan]

Sorry to hear this. Great episode featuring Bean and Apollo 12 in From the Earth to the Moon. RIP.

BTW, just finished reading Rocket Men about Apollo 8. I highly recommend it.

[Rummyfan]

Over 40 years later, we have gotten no further in terms of human exploration of the solar system. In fact, we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.

Think if what we accomplished in the sixties: while fighting a war in Viet Nam, we also went from virtual scratch to putting a man on the moon, while also enjoying an unprecedented standard of living here at home. Then... what happened?!

[dragnet2]

I think I get it. You want more manned missions. That’s commendable.

However, those, “electric carts” as you referred to them are paving the way for man to eventually leave this world. Unmanned spacecraft today go where no man can go and stay alive. These space craft are bringing in valuable data/discoveries that manned craft never could, and that data/discoveries from those unmanned spacecraft will be what keeps man alive in future extended manned missions.

[SamAdams76]

I think the descent downhill started with the leftist phrase “If we can put a man on the moon, then why can’t we feed the kids in Africa” and other variations of that phrase.

[minnesota_bound]

#8 Politicians are the cause of mankinds regress instaed of progress.

[M Kehoe]

RIP.

5.56mm

[Telepathic Intruder]

We could easily feed kids in Africa if every time we tried the warlords didn’t swoop in and take the food for themselves while killing the kids instead.

[null and void]

Jimmah Carter...

[tomkat]