Quotes by Alan Bean - Page 1

The moon is very rugged.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Moon
Rugged
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I found I have to stay painting.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Found
Painting
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I can remember walking on the moon.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Moon
Remember
Walking
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I think everything depends on money.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Money
Saving Money
Thinking
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I have the nicest life in the world.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Nicest
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Eventually there are going to be cities in space.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Space
Cities
Eventually
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One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Fairs
Great Things
Universe
Fair
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I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Color
Feels Right
Schemes
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At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Gravity
Suit
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I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Outer Space
Outer
Visited
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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Accurate
Artist
Difficult
Found
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I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Good Fortune
Moon
Good Men Walk
Walk
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It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Land
Moon
Way
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We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Space
Difficult
Knows
Moon
To The Moon
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It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Rockets
Seems
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I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Painting
Time Away
Want
Paintings
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History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Backing Up
Steady
Steps
Backing
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But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Knows
Moon
Paint
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Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Science
Apollo
Moon
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As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Artist
Mars
Moon
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I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Blessed
Lucky
Texas
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I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Flying
Machinery
Liked
Operating
Skill
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On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Pounds
Toes
Backpack
Suit
Weighed
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As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Moon
Ran
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I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we've been trained to do, to try to maximize every really minute on the moon.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Zero
Moon
Philosophical
Maximize
Operating
Trained
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Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Answers
Flying
Needs
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Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Birth
Defects
Day Will Know
Cure
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If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Apollo
Black And White
Buzz
Moon
Television
Toes
Bouncing
Saw
Neil
Tip
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It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Moon
Science Fiction
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We're going through all the checklist, getting in position to make the entry and all that... And I think either Pete, Dick, or I said, 'Well, I wonder how those parachutes are doing?' And then someone else said... 'Well, we'll find out in about 55 minutes!'
Alan Bean / Astronaut
Entry
Parachute
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