Talk:Alan Bean/Archive 1

Alan?
you know, alan bean is an artist, so yeah. He painted that picture of him on the moon, but with color. he also painted "Rock and Roll on the Ocean of Storms." Alan bean is the only artist who adds real moon dust onto his paintings. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xizes (talk • contribs) 04:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

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--One Salient Oversight 05:07, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Personal Life (needs more information)
The current edit of the page has a very poor section on Bean's Personal life. It was much better a while back, in 2007. Alan Bean has traveled about the world to school's and have inspire young people, like myself. He visited my school in November of 2007, which I saw as a great honor and something that should be mentioned on his Wikipedia page. However i understand my school is not the only school he's been to and defiantly not the most important. It will very likely be unreasonable to list every school he has visited however they're should be a sentence at least saying hat he spends he's time doing this sort of thing! Maybe not in this section and i don't know what length you all think it should be, but it does need to be in here somewhere.

Below is a quote at which the section "Personal Life" was once like back in 2007. My edit form back then start at the hash i have just added now.

"It is a point of pride[citation needed] to Bean that, on his Apollo 12 mission, he left the flag of his alma mater, R. L. Paschal High School, on the moon where it currently resides. He also took great pride in his Scottish roots and took a little piece of McBean tartan to the moon.[1] There is a swatch of this tartan on display in the Church of St Bean in Fowlis Wester which is a tranquil village in Perthshire, Scotland. Bean appeared at Central High School on November 19, 2007. He spoke to the freshman class and helped to present a new type of electron microscope created by FEI Industries, which also had a presence at the event. # Bean also appeared at Carleton Community High School in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England where he did a presentation about the Apollo 12 mission for some of the students, parents and the mayor of Wakefield. He also had an interview with the school's BTEC Media Group."

I know that this old edit isn't good enough to simply be re-instated, but I do believe it should say about what he's done.

Say, something like this "Bean also spends his time traveling across the globe to schools and over places to share he's experiences and inspire today's youth..."

Thanks for reading, please discuss this, I really think it needs to be said.

Fryjak (talk) 02:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Most time in space?
I haven't been able to verify this, but it seems to me that he should have held the record for most time in space after skylab 3, or have I missed something? Bergsten 22:54, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

He & his crew (Owen Garriott & Jack Lousma) did hold the record at 56 days, but were eclipsed by the crew of Skylab 4 a couple of months later. Not sure where I read that now, but will do some digging & maybe add some text to the article. Whoosher 16:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

In the book Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith it is claimed that the Lemon Jelly song Spacewalk samples the voice of Ed White not Alan Bean. The article seems to contradict the book. Now Ed White would have reason to flip about what he saw when space walking in 1965, given that it had never before been done. Did Alan Bean ever walk in space? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.109.220 (talk) 21:02, 8 September 2010 (UTC)