With the perfect name, evoking Jack Armstrong the All-American Boy and moonwalker Neil Armstrong, his was an ideal saga for our media age.

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Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean, now 77, has spent the intervening decades since his 1969 landing putting his impressions of the lunar experience on canvas.

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