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Long after I’m gone, people will have these paintings with dust and footprints in them. It will be something really special for people to enjoy and remember.

— Alan Bean After the moon, art is his mission (1997)

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Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.

After the moon, art is his mission (1997)

The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows where, is just beginning and there is nothing that can stop it.

An Interview with Alan Bean (1992)

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

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