The Apollo program was an impossible dream come true. Sending humans from Planet Earth to explore the moon and return was a glamorous and newsworthy dream, but no more important than the dreams we all have in our hearts right now. With this conviction, Alan will take each person in the audience along with him as Lunar Module Pilot on the flight of Apollo 12 and along the way present some thoughts and ideas that will help each individual reach for their own professional and personal stars.

By talking with, and listening to the client prior to an event, Alan custom tailors each speech around the theme of the client's event and the specific goals they wish to emphasize. Alan can focus on a broad variety of subjects from teamwork, high achievement, risk taking, goal setting, attitude control, achieving maximum potential, creative thinking, leadership, and effective fellowship, to showing how a company and an individual can find ways to accomplish their goals and dreams, and more.

Captain Bean knows about reaching for the stars, organizationally and individually. In 1973, he was the Commander of Skylab Mission II (SL III), where he lived 59 days in space, orbiting 270 miles above our planet Earth. Under his leadership his crew accomplished 150% of their pre-mission goals - a record unsurpassed before or since.

Alan has appeared as himself in movies and television, the most recent being Rocket’s Red Glare with Robert Wagner. Actor Dave Foley portrayed Alan in the Tom Hanks epic miniseries for HBO, From the Earth to the Moon . During his career as an astronaut, Alan helped establish eleven world records in aeronautics and astronautics. He was awarded two NASA Distinguished Service Medals. He also has received the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal, and many other national and international honors.

Captain Bean shows why as human beings from the Planet Earth we are the most extraordinary creatures in the universe. We are unique because as far as we know we are the only beings in the universe whose only limits are those we place on ourselves. As a NASA Astronaut, Bean learned that people did not have to be extra gifted or extra talented to do something great. No matter what their level of achievement may have been in the past, with extra effort and dedication they can be great in the future. Organizations and individuals are almost always significantly better than they know or believe. The saving of the Apollo 13 crew after their oxygen tank exploded is a perfect example.

People listen to Alan. He has competence and credibility and he causes them to think about where they are professionally and where they want to be. He stresses that we have but a brief chance, maybe 30 to 40 years at the most, to accomplish all we have dreamed we could. What we do today and tomorrow is not a rehearsal for some other life. Right now is the time we must be willing to do whatever it takes to be the person, professionally and personally, we have always dreamed we could be. Captain Bean emphasizes that our future will be cast in the image of our thoughts and actions of today.

If the client's schedule permits Captain Bean will remain an hour or so after his presentation to shake hands, answer questions, and personalize 11" x 14" prints of one of his most popular painting. He will bring 75 of these prints as a special "value-added" treat.

Alan Bean Biography Summary

Astronaut - Apollo and Skylab Missions:
Alan Bean, Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, became the fourth man in history to set foot on the moon. As commander of Skylab mission II, he lived 59 days in space, 270 miles above planet Earth. Under his leadership, his crew accomplished 150% of their pre-mission goals - a record unsurpassed before or since. During his career, Alan helped establish 11 world records in aeronautics and space. He tailors each speech around the theme of the client's event and the goals the client wishes to emphasize.

Says Bean, " I want to help the audience feel that they too can accomplish the challenges and dreams of their own lives and professions... That each of us can reach for our own stars... to understand that each of us can reach for our own stars... to understand that they are not light years distant but as close as our workplace, our home, and our family." After his perestentations, he will personalize 75 mini-prints of one of this paintings providing audience members the opportunity to talk with Captain Bean.

Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker
"Al Bean and Andy Chaikin portray in paintings and text the true life adventure of an astronaut exploring the wonders of the moon." James A. Lovell

In Apollo, Alan Bean and his astroartistry recreate the drama and excitement of man's exploration of the moon as could only be chronicled by one who had been there." Neil Armstrong

What one must understand about Al Bean is he is the only artist to have ever walked on the moon. No poet has ever been to the lunar surface, nor any journalist, architect nor songwriter. In the realm of the Arts it has fallen upon Al Bean to be the one moonwalker to turn hard data brought back from the moon into something other than numbered photographs, The images that Al has committed to canvas, them, are important, inspiring, and priceless works of art, Not only has he painted the moon, he's been there." Tom Hanks Click Here to Order.

Captain Bean
Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Born March 15, 1932, in Wheeler, Texas.
Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from University of Texas.
Flew on Apollo 12 and Skylab 3.
Cumulative hours of space flight are more than 1671.
Cumulative EVA time is more than 10 hours.

Alan Bean, has recently been featured on a number of News shows sharing his thoughts on recent history making events. Alan Bean is the fourth man to set foot on the moon and the second to lead a Skylab mission. He lived 59 days in space...270 miles above planet Earth. Bean is also a great American artist, creating paintings that artistically record for future generations mankind's first exploration of another world. According to Bean, "Space is our frontier and beginning its exploration may be our generation's greatest contribution to human history." As a speaker, Bean shares his personal journey to the moon through a visual extravaganza of pictures and paintings of outer space.