Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
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. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They… — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
