What is Alan Bean?
{{Infobox astronaut | name = Alan Bean | image = Alan Bean.jpg | type = [[NASA]] [[Astronaut]] | nationality = [[United States|American]] | birth_name = Alan LaVern Bean | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|03|15}} | birth_place = [[Wheeler, Texas]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|05|26|1932|03|15}} | death_place = [[Houston, Texas]], U.S. | occupation = [[Naval aviator]], [[test pilot]] | alma_mater = [[University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]], B.S. 1955 | rank = [[Captain (United States O-6)|Captain]], [[United States Navy|USN]] | selection = [[List of astronauts by selection#1963|1963 NASA Group 3]] | time = 69d 15h 45min | eva1 = 3 | eva2 = 10 hours 26 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spacefacts.de/eva/astronauts/english/bean_alan.htm|title=Alan Bean - EVA experience|author=Joachim Becker|publisher=}}</ref> | mission = [[Apollo 12]], [[Skylab 3]] | insignia = [[File:Apollo 12 insignia.png|40px]] [[File:Skylab2-Patch.png|40px]] | Date of ret = June 1981 }} '''Alan LaVern Bean''' (March 15, 1932 &ndash; May 26, 2018), ([[Captain (United States O-6)|Capt]], [[United States Navy|USN]], Ret.), was an [[United States|American]] former [[United States Navy|naval officer]] and [[United States naval aviator|aviator]], [[aeronautical engineer]], [[test pilot]], and [[NASA]] [[astronaut]]. He was the [[Moonwalkers|fourth person to walk on the Moon]]. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of [[NASA Astronaut Group 3|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 37, in November 1969. Bean died at a hospital in [[Houston, Texas]], on May 26, 2018, from a short illness, at the age of 86.<ref name=nasad>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean|title=Family Release Regarding the Passing of Apollo, Skylab Astronaut Alan Bean|date=May 26, 2018|publisher=NASA|access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref> ==Referenc