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	Alan Bean: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Bean was selected by NASA as part of group 3 in 1963 but was unsuccesful in securing an early flight assignment.
		Oceanus procellarum, latin for "ocean of storms", is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of earths moon....
		Captain Bean retired from the Navy in October 1975 but continued as head of the Astronaut Candidate Operations and Training Group within the Astronaut Office in a civilian capacity.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alan_bean.htm (965 words)

	none: Alan Bean
		Alan Bean, BS '55, has a unique distinction among University of Texas alumni: He is the only one to our knowledge to have his own action figure.
		Bean, a 1970 Distinguished Alumnus, enjoys his lists of historic firsts: He once pedaled on a stationary exercise bike for an entire earth orbit aboard Skylab, making him the first person to "pedal a bicycle around the world." He also claims being the first to eat spaghetti on the moon.
		Bean has a son and daughter and seven grandchildren.
	www.utopia.utexas.edu /articles/alcalde/bean.html?sec=educators&sub=none (5975 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Alan Bean
		Alan Bean (born March 15, 1932 in Wheeler, Texas) is a former NASA Astronaut.
		He graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas; received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1955 and after a four year tour as a fighter pilot trained as a Navy Test Pilot where his instructor was his future Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad.
		Bean was selected by NASA as part of group 3 in 1963 but was unsuccessful in securing an early flight assignment.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Alan_Bean (547 words)

	About Andrew Chaikin
		He is also the author of Air and Space: The National Air and Space Museum Story of Flight, published in 1997 by Bulfinch Press.
		He collaborated with moonwalker-turned-artist Alan Bean to write Apollo: An Eyewitness Account, published in 1998 by the Greenwich Workshop Press.
		Chaikin co-authored the text for the highly successful collection of Apollo photography, Full Moon, which was published by Knopf in 1999.
	www.andrewchaikin.com /About.htm (521 words)

	TheSpaceRace.com - Timeline of Space Exploration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space.
		President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade.
		Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier.
	www.thespacerace.com /timeline (738 words)

	Astronaut Bios
		Click on the image to the left for an enlargement in which the autographs of the Apollo 12 crew and Agle can be seen.
		An excuse to display Bean's artwork, but it's a great excuse.
		The first edition was printed before Alan Shepard's suborbital launch.
	www.boggsspace.com /astronaut_autobios.htm (3318 words)

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