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Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon, dies at 86

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Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon, dies at 86

Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon, died at the age of 86 on Saturday.

An obituary article published by NASA on behalf of his family said that Bean died at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, two weeks after he fell ill while on travel in Fort Wayne, Ind.

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