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40 years ago, on November, 14, 1969,
Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean, with fellow Apollo 12 astronauts,
Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad and Command Module
Pilot Richard Gordon, left Earth for the Moon. Five days later
on Nov. 19th, Bean stepped off the lunar module Intrepid and
onto the Moon’s Ocean of Storms and became the fourth human
to walk on another planet. Yet for all the training, for all
the data, for all the simulations and discipline, one of the
simplest and most human of questions came to his mind, “Is
anyone out there?” |