Eventually there are going to be cities in space. Alan Bean More Quotes by Alan Bean More Quotes From Alan Bean 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. Alan Bean suit only earth easy I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon. Alan Bean gift walk good men At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way. Alan Bean suit you different way 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. Alan Bean myself you moon remember 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. Alan Bean day blessed people world We're going through all the checklist, getting in position to make the entry and all that... And I think either Pete, Dick, or I said, 'Well, I wonder how those parachutes are doing?' And then someone else said... 'Well, we'll find out in about 55 minutes!' Alan Bean doing someone think wonder 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. Alan Bean thoughts try moon time 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. Alan Bean look me science believe 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. Alan Bean skill person intelligence flying 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. Alan Bean will doing earth believe Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them. Alan Bean will day see know
