- Flew two Apollo era flights. On Apollo 12, he, Charles Conrad (aka Pete) and Richard Gordon conducted the second trip to the moon. Bean was the Lunar Module Pilot and as such accompanied Conrad to land and walk on the surface of the moon. They brought back lunar rocks and pieces of the Surveyor 3 probe. As the Commander of Skylab 2, he flew with Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott and set a duration record of 59 days in space.
- Holds an Aeronautics Engineering degree from the University of Texas. His wife, Leslie, is an employee at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, TX.
- One of only three of the twelve astronauts who walked on the moon to stay with NASA and fly further space missions. The others were Bean's commander on Apollo XII, Pete Conrad, and Apollo XVI Commander John Young. Conrad and Bean each commanded a Skylab mission in 1973, and Young flew the inaugural Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, in 1981, and a fully crewed mission, STS-9, in 1983.
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