IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO today that Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon. During the Apollo 12 mission, he executed scientific experiments and collected rocks for study back on Earth ...

Often overlooked in the shadow of Apollo 11, Apollo 12 was a mission of remarkable achievements and quiet heroism. Launched ...

On Nov. 19, 1969, Bean, along with Apollo 12 commander, Charles "Pete" Conrad, landed on the Ocean of Storms and Bean became the fourth human to walk on the moon.

“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

On Nov. 24, 1969, Apollo 12 returned to Earth after completing a successful journey to the moon. Aboard was astronaut Alan Bean, who had just become the fourth man to walk on the lunar surface.

Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon who later turned to painting, died Saturday. He was 86. Bean, a native of Wheeler, Texas, was a member of the Apollo 12 mission in November 1969 ...

To improve upon the murky TV pictures sent back by Apollo 11, NASA sent a color TV camera with Apollo 12. While setting up the camera, however, Bean accidentally pointed it either at the sun or at ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The longest human space flight up to that time ended with the splashdown of the Skylab 3 crew of Alan L. Bean, Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma on September 25, 1973. The ...

Back in 1969, the Apollo 12 mission got hit by lightning twice during ascent, but kept going to the Moon. CGI video shows critical moments, with original audio ...