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

By Daniel Chaitin
Published May 26, 2018 7:15pm ET
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Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon, dies at 86
In this 2009 photo, Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean talks about the largest exhibition of his artwork to date, inspired by his experience walking on the moon, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing. He died at the age of 86 on Saturday. | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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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