Rockets Getting Quotes by Alan Bean

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

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

— Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

— Alan Bean

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

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

I have the nicest life in the world.

— Alan Bean

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.

— Alan Bean

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

— Alan Bean

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

I can remember walking on the moon.

— Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

— Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

— Alan Bean