My son asked me tonight to find him information about Neil Armstrong. They’ve been studying the planets (including Pluto) the last couple of weeks in school. I asked him if he knew there was an astronaut that shared his last name.
I introduced him to Alan Bean.
Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.
Captain Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, man?s second lunar landing. In November 1969, Captain Bean and Captain Pete Conrad landed in the moon?s Ocean of Storms?after a flight of some 250,000 miles. They explored the lunar surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments, and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the moon to provide the power source. Captain Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit photographing landing sites for future missions.
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