Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean passed away today. The details of his passing haven't been released yet. Bean, born in Wheeler, Texas, went to the moon on Apollo 12 and is one of the few men to have walked on its surface in November 1969.
He returned to space aboard Skylab 3, the second manned mission to the space station in 1973.
He retired from NASA in 1981.
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