Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Alan Bean was 86

Astronaut Alan Bean, the Wheeler, Texas, son of a scientist who became a U.S. Navy aviator, a NASA astronaut, and walked on the moon, died May 26 at age 86. After he retired from the space agency, Bean became known for his canvas art paintings, many of which featured other-worldly scenes inspired from his lunar explorations and celestial orbits.

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