Alan Bean, astronaut who walked on the moon, dies at 86

Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America's first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, died Saturday. He was 86.NASA confirmed Bean's death in a statement, saying the former astronaut died at Houston Methodist Hospital after a short illness."Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew," his wife, Leslie Bean, said in the NASA statement. "He was the love of my life and I miss him dearly. ...