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Another moon walker has gone to the great beyond

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Astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon who later turned to painting, died Saturday. He was 86.

Bean, a native of Wheeler, Texas, was a member of the Apollo 12 mission in November 1969, traveling to the moon alongside Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon.

Bean and Conrad conducted experiments on the moon's surface and installed a nuclear power generator on the moon.

"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," NASA wrote in its biography on Bean.

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