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Fourth person to walk on the Moon, Alan Bean, dies aged 86
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Sunday, 27 May, 2018
NASA astronaut Alan Bean, who became the fourth person to walk on the Moon in 1969, passed away aged 86 on Saturday. Bean was a lunar module pilot of Apollo 12, which made the second Moon landing, after Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and late Neil Armstrong. Only 12 people have set foot on the Moon, eight of whom have died.
read more at The Guardian