![]() The crew’s primary mission objectives included an extensive series of lunar exploration tasks by the lunar module and the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package to be left on the moon’s surface to gather seismic, scientific and engineering data.īean has logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in space - 10 hours and 26 minutes of that were spent on the moon and in Earth’s orbit. Apollo 12 astronauts (from left) Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean Getty Images The lunar module pilot was one of three crew members onboard Apollo 12 who walked on the moon 10 days after it launched on Nov. He was an astronaut on the second manned mission to the moon and the fourth man to walk on its surface.Īlan Bean, 85, is one of only 12 people to have taken “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” on the moon.
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