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A dozen men have walked on the moon... yet today, only four survive to relate the extraordinary personal experiences of having walked the surface of a world other than Earth. Alan Bean, astronaut, artist and Lunar Module Pilot, has gone west at the age of 86. Bean’s life was extraordinary and spanned two pivotal manned space programs. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969, joining Pete Conrad in the landing, and served as the Lunar Module Pilot. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to Skylab -- America&