Brief
Alan Bean
The claims the writer was given for Alan Bean, in the order they were given.
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During the Apollo 12 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription, Alan Bean, looking out the Alignment Optical Telescope (AOT) in the dark quadrant of Intrepid, observed particles of light and flashes of light appearing to come from behind him in quadrant 1 and sailing off into space.
“Roger. When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights - particles of light, flashes of light just seem to come from - in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one. It's coming from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space.”
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Alan Bean initially thought the light particles seen from Intrepid were dropping from his water boiler, but considered it possible some of them were escaping the Moon.
“I was thinking they're dropping from my water boiler, but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars.”
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Alan Bean observed an interesting phenomenon on the Abort Guidance System (AGS) aboard Intrepid: an all-8's flash on both the address and information registers at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers, pulsing every second.
“Got sort of an interesting thing going on AGS right now. I didn't notice earlier, but it may just be because the lights are brighter now. I'm getting an all 8's flash on both the address and the information registers at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. And a - It's pulsing every second.”
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Alan Bean found that turning down the illumination level slightly made the AGS all-8's flash phenomenon on Intrepid not noticeable.
“If I turn down the illumination level just a little bit, it's not noticeable.”
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The NASA mission film Pinpoint for Science was named after Pete Conrad and Alan Bean's successful pinpoint lunar landing during Apollo 12.
“Ergo the name of that official mission film, after Pete Conrad and Alan Bean's incredibly successful "pinpoint" lunar landing.”
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Richard C. Hoagland focused on original Oxberry Animation Stand animations that NASA's contract producers had incorporated into Pinpoint for Science, consisting of pans and zooms of stills from the original Apollo 12 Hasselblad shots taken on the Moon by Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.
“He was focusing on original Oxberry Animation Stand (another Hollywood device, used to animate still photographs in movies) animations that NASA's "contract producers" had incorporated in the film—pans and zooms of "stills" from the original Apollo 12 Hasselblad shots taken on the Moon by the Apollo 12 crew, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.”
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Alan Bean became an accomplished artist after his mission to the Moon.
“an astronaut-turned-accomplished-artist after his historic November, 1969 Mission to the Moon”
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Alan Bean flew to the Moon on a historic mission in November 1969.
“an astronaut-turned-accomplished-artist after his historic November, 1969 Mission to the Moon”
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Alan Bean, asked what the sky looked like from the Moon, said it looked like a shiny black, unlike Earth black at night, reminding him a little of patent-leather shoes.
“*Discover*: What did the sky look like from the Moon? *Bean*: It looks like a *shiny* black. It doesn't look like Earth black at night. Up there, space has a real *shiny* look. It reminded me a little bit of *patent-leather shoes*.”
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Alan Bean recalled repeatedly asking himself why the lunar sky seemed so shiny.
“And I kept asking myself, as I looked at it, "Why does it seem so *shiny*?"”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers the anomalous shiny black space that Alan Bean still vividly remembers to be photographically confirmed as caused by a billion bits of meteor-shattered glass still catching sunlight against what should have been a pitch black lunar sky.
“This is now photographically confirmed as having been caused by a billion bits of meteor-shattered glass still catching sunlight against what should have been a pitch black lunar sky.”
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Alan Bean has spent a great deal of time since retiring from the space program developing his talents as an artist, painting both real events and imagined depictions of his fellow astronauts.
“Since returning from the Moon and retiring from the space program, Bean has spent a great deal of his time developing his obviously innate talents as an artist. He has painted lunar images of both real events—as well as "imagined depictions" of his fellow astronauts doing things they didn't get to do on the "real" Moon.”
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Alan Bean's paintings of missions other than his own depict the lunar sky as absolute black, while his paintings of his own mission depict the sky as an odd bluish tone.
“Invariably, when he would paint a vision from a mission other than his own, the sky would appear as the absolute black that it "should" be; but, when he took to painting the Moon from the depths of his own memory, the sky suddenly became the odd bluish tone”
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Alan Bean tends to paint the lunar surface with pastel shades and colours rather than the dull, uniform grey tones considered canonical by NASA standards.
“Bean tends to paint the lunar surface not in the dull, uniform gray tones that are "canonical" (by NASA standards)—but with a wide variety of curiously pastel shades and colors.”
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Alan Bean's painting titled "Rock 'n Roll on the Ocean of Storms" depicts Bean and his mission commander Pete Conrad horse-playing on the surface of the Moon.
“Titled "Rock 'n Roll on the Ocean of Storms," it depicts Bean and his Mission Commander, Pete Conrad, horse-playing on the surface of the Moon.”
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Alan Bean's painting "Rock 'n Roll on the Ocean of Storms" depicts in the sky above the astronauts a battered lunar dome with inclined buttresses.
“the sky above the astronauts unmistakably depicts not only Hoagland's "battered lunar dome" but its specifically "inclined buttresses" as well.”
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Alan Bean's colourful, geometric depictions of the Moon are, in Richard C. Hoagland's view, one more building block in a case arguing for decades of deliberate NASA deceptions and disinformation regarding the Moon.
“Bean’s highly personal colorful and geometric Moon is one more building block in a growing case arguing for literally *decades* of deliberate NASA deceptions and disinformation vis-à-vis the Moon”
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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspected the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had soft-landed in virtually the same location as the Apollo 12 lunar module, more than two years earlier, on Adolf Hitler's birthday.
“Fig. 5-7 - Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean inspects the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had soft landed in virtually the same location as Apollo 12 (note Lunar Module on Surveyor crater rim), but more than two years earlier - on *Adolf Hitler’s birthday* (NASA).”
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In November 1969, four months after Apollo 11, NASA landed Pete Conrad and Alan Bean on the Moon in a pinpoint landing right beside the Surveyor 3 probe, within walking distance of it.
“Just four months after Apollo 11, in November, 1969, NASA set Pete Conrad and Alan Bean down (for their "pinpoint" lunar landing …) right beside Surveyor 3—literally within walking distance”
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Apollo 12 photograph AS12-46-6807 shows Alan Bean wearing a gold visor and carrying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP).
“Color Fig. 7 - Apollo 12 frame AS12-46-6807 shows astronaut Alan Bean, wearing specially tuned gold visor, carrying ALSEP experiment package.”
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The hexagonal halo around Alan Bean in Apollo 12 photograph AS12-46-6807 is internal lens flare from the Hasselblad camera.
“Hexagonal halo around Bean is Hasselblad camera internal lens flare.”
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Richard C. Hoagland considers astronauts' artwork and public statements, including Alan Bean's artwork, silent confirmations of a lunar dome thesis proposed by Hoagland.
“Beyond the silent confirmations of our Lunar dome thesis in Alan Bean's artwork, they seemed to be, at times, speaking out in the only way they could, through subtle "messages" and actions”
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A few minutes after deployment of the colour camera on Apollo 12, Alan Bean pointed it directly into the sun, badly damaging the receiver and rendering the camera useless.
“A few minutes after deployment of the camera, Alan Bean managed to violate his training and point it directly into the sun, which badly damaged the receiver. This rendered the camera useless.”
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Alan Bean described the appearance of the lunar sky from the surface of the Moon as reminding him of black patent-leather shoes.
“Photographic confirmation of Alan Bean’s own haunting lunar memories … “up there, space has a real *shiny* look. It reminded me a little bit of [black] *patent-leather shoes …*.””
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