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Who was the fourth man on the Moon?

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  1. Alan L. Bean, the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 12 mission.

    Bean was selected by NASA as part of group 3 in 1963. He was selected to be the backup Command Pilot for Gemini 10 but was unsuccessful in securing an early Apollo flight assignment. He was placed in the Apollo Applications Program in the interim. When fellow astronaut Clifton Williams was killed in an air crash, a space was opened for Bean on the back-up crew for Apollo 9. Apollo 12 Commander Conrad, who had instructed Bean at the Naval Flight Test School years before, personally requested Bean to replace Williams.

    Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, the second lunar landing. In November 1969, Al Bean and Pete Conrad landed in the moon's Ocean of Storms—after a flight of 250,000 miles and a launch that included a harrowing lightning strike. Bean was the astronaut who executed John Aaron's famous "Flight, try SCE to 'Aux'" instruction to restore telemetry after the spacecraft was struck by lightning 36 seconds after launch, thus salvaging the mission. 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. d**k Gordon remained in lunar orbit photographing landing sites for future missions.


  2. Well, first someone has to get there.

  3. Alan Bean.  


  4. Alan Bean, of the Apollo 12 mission, was the 4th person to walk on the Moon.

  5. Alan Bean

  6. Beano!!

  7. There's none forgotten half so soon

    As he who's fourth to walk the moon.

    Ogden Nash

  8. What is with you conspiracy theorists?  Must you dump on every mention of the Apollo missions?

    Multiple lights produce MULTIPLE shadows from each object, not one shadow from each object going in different directions.  I've seen literally HUNDREDS of photographs replicating the so-called impossible Apollo photos, using only sunlight.  And I've produced dozens myself, including the allegedly divergent shadows.

    I'm an engineer and photographer.  And unlike ANY of the conspiracy theorists, I actually have fornal training in photographic analysis.  The conspiracy theorists use completely made-up, wrong methods for "analyzing" the Apollo photos.  None of them has any training or experience in the proper methods.  It doesn't take much in the way of perspective and terrain variation to produce the shadow directions visbible in Apollo photography.

    There is nothing amiss in Apollo photography.  No qualified photographic analyst doubts the authenticity of the Apollo photographs.

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