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Alan Bien, male, American, was born March 15, 1932, a former NASA astronaut.

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Alan Bien, male, American, was born March 15, 1932, a former NASA astronaut.

Chinese name

Alain Raven Bien

Foreign name

Alan LaVern Bean

Country of Citizenship

United States

place of birth

Weller, Texas ^[1]

date of birth

March 15, 1932 ^[1]

Date of death

May 26, 2018 ^[2]

Occupation

NASA astronaut / US Navy pilot, test pilot (Captain's rank) ^[1]

graduated school

University of Texas-Austin ^[1]

Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932-May 26, 2018) NASA retired astronaut. Born in Willer, Texas in 1932. Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas (Austin) in 1955. Bien participated in the Navy ROTC during his college years and was awarded the rank of second lieutenant in the United States Navy after graduation. After receiving flight training, he obtained the US Naval Aviator qualification, and successively served as a fighter pilot and test pilot. ^[1]

Bean was selected by NASA as the third group of astronauts in 1963. He has been selected for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9 backup crews. In November 1969, as a lunar module pilot, Bien took the Apollo ride with Charles "Pete" Conrad, command commander, and Richard Francis Gordon, command commander. Apollo 12 took off to the moon. Bean and Conrad successfully landed in the lunar module at a predetermined location on the moon. In the subsequent extravehicular activities, Bean became the fourth person to step on the moon in history. ^{[1] [3]}

Bien served as the second U.S. space station resident mission from July 29, 1973 to September 25, 1973, and was the mission commander of Skylab-3. He was the same as mission scientist Owen Gary Otter. Kay Garriott and pilot Jack Robert Lousma are stationed at the Skylab (the first space station in the United States), this is his second and last space flight mission. At this point, the total length of Alan Bien's space flight has reached 65 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes, including three extravehicular activities (a total of 10 hours and 26 minutes). ^{[1] [4]}

Bean resigned from the space agency in June 1981, and has since devoted himself to professional painting in order to present the unique sights he saw in space to the world. ^[1]

While serving in the United States Navy and NASA, Bean has twice won the Navy Distingushed Service Medal and the NASA Distingushed Service Medal. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame, the US Astronaut Hall of Fame, and the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1983, 1997, and 2010, respectively. Bean has also won many other awards. ^[1]

Local time on May 26, 2018, Alan Bien died at the age of 86 in Houston, Texas, USA. ^[2]