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Alan Bean Quotes

American - Astronaut | March 15, 1932 - May 26, 2018

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Space Moon Know Difficult Going Get

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.

Moon Right Paint Because Only Knows

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.

Easy Earth Up Suit Backpack Toes

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.

Black And White Fun Moon Black You

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.

You Gravity Way Suit Move Different

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.

Myself Moon Saying Remember You Up

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

Day People Blessed World Care Feel

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.

Time Moon Thoughts Say Try Zero

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.

Science Me Moon Believe Doing Look

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

Good Walk Men Moon Gift Fortune

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.

Intelligence Flying Person Skill

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

Believe Doing Earth Now Will First

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