Alan L. Bean, right, with fellow Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., left, and Richard F. Gordon Jr., after their 1969 mission to the moon. “What changes did you make?”“I hit it on the top with my hammer,” Mr. Bean said. “This has got to be the most spectacular sight of the whole flight,” Mr. Bean said at the time. After more than 31 hours on the moon, Conrad and Mr. Bean lifted off and rejoined Gordon in the Yankee Clipper. Soon afterward, Mr. Bean retired from NASA to devote himself to a longtime hobby that had become an overriding passion: painting.

Source: Washington Post May 26, 2018 18:58 UTC