
Record of mankind's first exploration of another world
Lunar missions chronicled in paintings by Apollo 12 astronaut Captain Alan Bean. The book contains almost a hundred full color paintings.
Apollo 12 and Skylab II astronaut Bean retired from NASA in 1982 to become, full-time, an exceedingly gifted artist, and this spectacular volume is made up of his artwork and a text he wrote with aerospace journalist Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon (1994). The 90-odd paintings include depictions of Bean's own lunar landing and tributes to the achievements of other Apollo astronauts, especially those of Apollo 11 and 13. The main text and picture notes add up to a fairly complete biography of Bean as an astronaut, an artist, and an uncommonly useful member of society. There has been nothing quite like this book before, and as the astronauts of the early space program pass on, there will be fewer. Fortunately, NASA sent an artist to the moon early on, though, at the time, it didn't know it.
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