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 ... NASA in June 1981 to devote his full time to ...

Alan Bean was already a painter in his spare time when he went to the Moon as lunar module pilot in the Apollo 12 crew. In this interview, compiled from deleted scenes recorded for the documentary ...