Captain Alan L. Bean Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
CAPTAIN ALAN L. BEAN
Born: March 15, 1932 in Wheeler, Texas
Died: May 26, 2018 in Houston, Texas
Died: May 26, 2018 in Houston, Texas
Alan Bean (Captain, U.S. Navy, Retired)
NASA Astronaut (Former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Wheeler, Texas, on March 15, 1932. Married. Two grown children, a son and a daughter.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas; received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas in 1955; awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Texas Wesleyan College in 1972; presented an honorary doctorate of engineering science degree from the University of Akron (Ohio) in 1974.
ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow of the American Astronautical Society; member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
SPECIAL HONORS: Helped establish 11 world records in space and astronautics; awarded two NASA distinguished Service Medals, the Navy Astronaut Wings and two Navy Distinguished Service Medals; recipient of the Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award for Scientific and Technical Progress, the University of Texas Distinguished Alumnus Award and Distinguished Engineering Graduate Award, the Godfrey L. Cabot Award, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Trustees Award, the Texas Press Associations Man of the Year Award for 1969, the City of Chicago Gold Medal, the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973, the Federation Aeronautique Internationales Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal for 1973 and the V.M. Komarov Diploma for 1973 (1974), the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1975 (1975), the AIAA Octave Chanute Award for 1975 (1975), the AAS Flight Achievement Award for 1974 (1975).
EXPERIENCE: Alan Bean, a Navy ROTC Student at Texas, was commissioned upon graduation in 1955. After completing flight training, he was assigned to a jet attack squadron in Jacksonville, Florida. After a four-year tour of duty, he attended the Navy Test Pilot School, then flew as a test pilot on several types of naval aircraft.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.
Captain Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, mans second lunar landing. In November 1969, Captain Bean and Captain Pete Conrad landed in the moons Ocean of Stormsafter a flight of some 250,000 miles. They explored the lunar surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments, and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the moon to provide the power source. Captain Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit photographing landing sites for future missions.
Captain Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II (SL-3), July 29 to September 25, 1973. With him on the 59-day, 24,400,000 mile world record setting flight were scientist-astronaut Dr. Owen K. Garriott and Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Jack R. Lousma. Mission II accomplished 150% of its pre-mission forecast goals.
On his next assignment, Captain Bean was backup spacecraft commander of the United States flight crew for the joint American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Captain Bean has logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in spaceof which 10 hours and 26 minutes were spent in EVAs on the moon and in earth orbit. Captain Bean has flown 27 types of military aircraft as well as many civilian airplanes. He has logged more than 7,145 hours flying timeincluding 4,890 hours in jet aircraft. 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.
Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his full time to painting. He said his decision was based on the fact that, in his 18 years as an astronaut, he was fortunate enough to visit worlds and see sights no artists eye, past or present, has ever viewed firsthand and he hopes to express these experiences through the medium of art. He is pursuing this dream at his home and studio in Houston.
NASA Astronaut (Former)
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Wheeler, Texas, on March 15, 1932. Married. Two grown children, a son and a daughter.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas; received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas in 1955; awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Texas Wesleyan College in 1972; presented an honorary doctorate of engineering science degree from the University of Akron (Ohio) in 1974.
ORGANIZATIONS: Fellow of the American Astronautical Society; member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.
SPECIAL HONORS: Helped establish 11 world records in space and astronautics; awarded two NASA distinguished Service Medals, the Navy Astronaut Wings and two Navy Distinguished Service Medals; recipient of the Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award for Scientific and Technical Progress, the University of Texas Distinguished Alumnus Award and Distinguished Engineering Graduate Award, the Godfrey L. Cabot Award, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Trustees Award, the Texas Press Associations Man of the Year Award for 1969, the City of Chicago Gold Medal, the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973, the Federation Aeronautique Internationales Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal for 1973 and the V.M. Komarov Diploma for 1973 (1974), the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1975 (1975), the AIAA Octave Chanute Award for 1975 (1975), the AAS Flight Achievement Award for 1974 (1975).
EXPERIENCE: Alan Bean, a Navy ROTC Student at Texas, was commissioned upon graduation in 1955. After completing flight training, he was assigned to a jet attack squadron in Jacksonville, Florida. After a four-year tour of duty, he attended the Navy Test Pilot School, then flew as a test pilot on several types of naval aircraft.
NASA EXPERIENCE: Alan Bean was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963. He served as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 missions.
Captain Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, mans second lunar landing. In November 1969, Captain Bean and Captain Pete Conrad landed in the moons Ocean of Stormsafter a flight of some 250,000 miles. They explored the lunar surface, deployed several lunar surface experiments, and installed the first nuclear power generator station on the moon to provide the power source. Captain Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit photographing landing sites for future missions.
Captain Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II (SL-3), July 29 to September 25, 1973. With him on the 59-day, 24,400,000 mile world record setting flight were scientist-astronaut Dr. Owen K. Garriott and Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Jack R. Lousma. Mission II accomplished 150% of its pre-mission forecast goals.
On his next assignment, Captain Bean was backup spacecraft commander of the United States flight crew for the joint American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Captain Bean has logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in spaceof which 10 hours and 26 minutes were spent in EVAs on the moon and in earth orbit. Captain Bean has flown 27 types of military aircraft as well as many civilian airplanes. He has logged more than 7,145 hours flying timeincluding 4,890 hours in jet aircraft. 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.
Bean resigned from NASA in June 1981 to devote his full time to painting. He said his decision was based on the fact that, in his 18 years as an astronaut, he was fortunate enough to visit worlds and see sights no artists eye, past or present, has ever viewed firsthand and he hopes to express these experiences through the medium of art. He is pursuing this dream at his home and studio in Houston.
2012 Lunarcy! (in person), 2000 Rocket's Red Glare (in person), 1990 The Other Side of the Moon (in person), 2002 Alan Bean: Artist, Explorer, Moonwalker (Writer), 2014 The Last Man on the Moon (in person), 2010 The Colbert Report (in person), 2009 James May on the Moon (in person), 2007 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (in person), 2002 Alan Bean: Artist, Explorer, Moonwalker (in person), 1989 For All Mankind (in person), 1997 Was It Only a Paper Moon (Other), 2007 The Wonder of It All (Other), 2009 The Apollo Years (in person), 2007 Secrets of the Moon Landings (in person), 2007 The Wonder of It All (in person), 2007 In the Shadow of the Moon (in person), 2003 Failure Is Not an Option (in person), 1996 The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley: The Case of the U.S. Space (in person), 2006 Carrier (Performer), 2010 Moonbug (in person), 2009 Apollo Zero (in person), 2008 When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (in person), 2002 Rocket Science (in person), 1994 CBS This Morning (in person), 2000 What Happened on the Moon - An Investigation Into Apollo (Other)
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ALAN L. BEAN Signed copy of his book, Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World Book signed: "Alan Bean", 11½x10½, 225 pages. Painting Apollo: First Artist on Another World, by Alan Bean. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2009. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. read more...Sale Price $396.00
$440.00
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ALAN L. BEAN The NASA captain signs on this 8x10½ Mission Report, detailing his mission on the moon Book signed: "Alan Bean/Apollo 12"¸in gold ink, 16 pages, 8x10½. A Mission Report of the Apollo 12 mission, detailing the mission with illustrated pictures and photographs. read more...Sale Price $680.00
$800.00
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ALAN L. BEAN He pens his signature on envelope honoring the world tour of Astronauts! Commemorative Envelope Signed: "Alan L. Bean", 6½x3½. Commemorative read more...Sale Price $234.00
$260.00
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SKYLAB II Moonwalker and rookie astronauts spend record time in space station. Commemorative Envelope signed: "Alan L. Bean", "Jack Lousma" and "Owen Garriott", 6½x3½. read more...Sale Price $531.25
$625.00
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SKYLAB A record two months in space! Commemorative Envelope signed: "Alan L. Bean", "Owen Garriott" and "Jack Lousma", 6½x3½. Postmarked Cape Canaveral, Florida, September 20, 1973. read more...Sale Price $531.25
$625.00
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ALAN L. BEAN He pens his signature on this typed biography inscribed to a fan! Inscribed Biography Signed: "To Mrs T Poe Pitts -/With the very best wishes/Alan L. Bean", 1p, 8x10½. read more...Sale Price $432.00
$480.00
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ALAN BEAN Shown on the cover of a program for "Meet the artist" Printed Program signed: "Alan L. Bean", 4p, 5½x7. Titled: "Meet the Artist", picturing Bean on the cover in a space suit. read more...Sale Price $446.25
$525.00
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SKYLAB ASTRONAUTS The Skylab Astronauts send a typed letter. Typed Letter Signed: "Alan L. Bean", "Owen K. Garriott" and "Jack R. read more...Sale Price $1,020.00
$1,200.00
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ALAN L. BEAN The fourth man to walk on the Moon remembers his initial reaction to the Sputnik I launch. Typed Manuscript signed: "Alan Bean", 1 page, 8½x11. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, no date. Bean remembers his initial reaction to the Sputnik I launch. read more...Sale Price $1,742.50
$2,050.00
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APOLLO 12. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Charles Conrad, Jr.", "Alan L. Bean" and "Dick Gordon", 6½x3½. Space cover honoring the Splashdown of Apollo 12, 10-cent U.S. read more...Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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APOLLO 12 CREW The Apollo 12 crew signs a color postcard photograph. Postcard Photograph signed: "Charles Conrad", "Richard Gordon" and "Alan Bean". Color, 4x6. read more...Sale Price $544.00
$640.00
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APOLLO 12 Man's second landing on the Moon crew sign a piece of paper. Signatures: "Charles Conrad, Jr.", "Alan L. Bean" and "Dick Gordon", 3¾x3¾ paper. read more...Sale Price $2,932.50
$3,450.00
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APOLLO 12 Second manned landing on the Moon. Photograph signed: "Charles Conrad, Jr.", "Dick Gordon" and "Alan L. Bean". B/w, 8x10. Apollo 12, launched on November 14, 1969, landed on the Moon on November 18, 1969. read more...Sale Price $1,742.50
$2,050.00
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APOLLO 12 Second manned lunar mission - third and fourth astronauts to walk on the Moon. Photograph signed: "Alan Bean", "Charles Conrad, Jr." and "Dick Gordon". Color, 10x8. read more...Sale Price $1,997.50
$2,350.00
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APOLLO XII Color official NASA publicity photograph of the Apollo XII crew. Official NASA Photograph signed: "Charles Conrad Jr.", "Alan L. Bean" and "Richard F. Gordon Jr." read more...Sale Price $1,742.50
$2,050.00
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APOLLO 12 CREW The Apollo 12 crew signs a philatelic envelope honoring the second U.S. Moon Landing. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Charles Conrad, Jr.", "Alan L. read more...Sale Price $531.25
$625.00
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APOLLO 12 The Apollo 12 crew signs a philatelic envelope honoring the second U.S. Moon Landing. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Charles Conrad, Jr.", "Alan L. Bean" and "Dick Gordon", 6½x 3½. read more...Sale Price $680.00
$800.00
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APOLLO 12 CREW The Apollo 12 crew signs a philatelic envelope honoring the second U.S. Moon Landing. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Charles Conrad, Jr. read more...Sale Price $531.25
$625.00
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APOLLO 12: CONRAD AND BEAN The third and fourth man on the Moon sign five weeks before their landing. Program/menu inscribed and signed: "To/Mrs. Krauskoff/with best wishes/Charles Conrad Jr." and "Alan L. Bean/Apollo XII", 16p, 8½x11. read more...Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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APOLLO 12 CREW The Apollo 12 crew signs a philatelic envelope honoring Apollo XII. Philatelic Envelope signed: "Dick Gordon", "Alan L. Bean" and "Charles Conrad, Jr.", 6½x3¼. read more...Sale Price $1,020.00
$1,200.00
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Sixty-page reprint of a National Geographic issue devoted to the Skylab Space Station, signed by the mission astronauts on a spectacular 2-page color photo. From the personal collection of Jack Lousma! read more...Sale Price $1,190.00
$1,400.00
