Astronaut Alan Bean, member of the Apollo 12 mission and the fourth human to walk on the moon, died Saturday at the age of 86. Bean spent 31 hours on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission, and even he couldn’t believe where he was walking. “I remember ... saying to myself, ‘You know, this is really the moon. “And I said it two or three times to myself.”He later commanded the second Skylab mission in 1973 and spent 59 days orbiting the Earth. However, Bean went in a completely different direction after he left the space program: He became a professional painter.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2018 19:52 UTC