Alan Bean Quotes

• I think everything depends on money.

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• We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn’t know how difficult.

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• The moon is very rugged.

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• One of the great things about the universe is that it’s fair.

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• It’s hard not to be excited when you’re going to find a way to land on the moon.

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• I have the nicest life in the world.

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• I found I have to stay painting.

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• I feel like there’s too many paintings left unpainted that I just don’t want to take the time away.

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• I can remember walking on the moon.

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• History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

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• Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

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• But I’m the only one who can paint the moon, because I’m the only one who knows whether that’s right or not.

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• But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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Birth:	15th March, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Astronaut, Painter

About

Alan LaVern Bean is a former NASA astronaut and a painter. Bean was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969. During this mission, Bean became the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, Bean pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo Program astronauts.

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