Frases de Alan L. Bean

Alan LaVern Bean fue un oficial naval estadounidense y aviador naval, ingeniero aeronáutico, piloto de pruebas y astronauta de la NASA; fue la cuarta persona en caminar sobre la Luna. Fue seleccionado para convertirse en astronauta por la NASA en 1963.

Hizo su primer vuelo al espacio a bordo del Apolo 12, la segunda misión tripulada para aterrizar en la Luna, a los 37 años en noviembre de 1969. Hizo su segundo y último vuelo al espacio en la misión Skylab 3 en 1973, la segunda misión tripulada a la estación espacial Skylab. Después de retirarse de la Armada de los Estados Unidos en 1975 y de la NASA en 1981, siguió su interés por la pintura, representando diversas escenas relacionadas con el espacio y documentando sus propias experiencias en el espacio, así como la de sus compañeros astronautas del programa Apolo. Fue el último miembro vivo de la tripulación del Apolo 12. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. marzo 1932 – 26. mayo 2018
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Alan L. Bean: Frases en inglés

“The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows where, is just beginning and there is nothing that can stop it.”

An Interview with Alan Bean (1992)
Contexto: The movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; first the Moon, and then Mars, and then who knows where, is just beginning and there is nothing that can stop it. None of us know the timetable, none of us know whether it's going to happen rapidly or it's going to happen very slowly.
Eventually, as the centuries unfold, human beings will populate all these places and maybe a thousand years from now, or maybe it's two thousand or five thousand, there will be more human beings living off the Earth than live on it. Its just going to happen and we don't need to be anxious about it. We don't need to worry that next year they decide to cut the space station. If they cut the space station next year, I hope they don't, but if they did, it's not the end of the world. We're going to eventually have a wonderful space station. Eventually there are going to be cities in space. If Chicago had been founded a hundred years later, we wouldn't even know that now. I don't know when it was founded, but if it had been a hundred years later or a hundred years earlier, right now it wouldn't make any difference. It would probably look about the same. People would be just as happy doing the same things. That's the same way with space exploration. Maybe we don't go to Mars in my lifetime, maybe we don't even go till my grandkids lifetime. That's okay. Eventually it will happen.

“Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.”

Statement on significations in his painting "Reaching for the Stars", at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Florida, USA.
After the moon, art is his mission (1997)

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