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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Saucy Playboy pictures taken to the Moon have sold for $400,000 at auction. They were sold alongside a space hammer that went for $812,500 in the sale of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean‘s mission-used ...

Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon who later chronicled the experience as an artist, died Saturday in Houston after a short illness. He was 86. Bean was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 12, ...