Bean’s In the Beginning… Print #581 of 1000 signed by 20 NASA Apollo astronauts

Description: In the Beginning...by Alan Bean Commemorating July 20, 1969, the day the first human set foot on the Moon, and honoring all astronauts who took part in the Apollo program. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." On November 15, 1969, Alan Bean also set foot on the Moon. Twenty-five years later, "In the Beginning..." was created to celebrate the anniversary. In the Beginning... is a LIMITED EDITION PRINT, hand-signed by Alan Bean and hand-countersigned by astronauts from each of the Apollo lunar missions: Apollo 7 - Wally Shirra, Walter CunninghamApollo 8 - Frank BormanApollo 9 - Jim McDivitt, Rusty SchweikertApollo 10 - Tom StaffordApollo 11 - Michael Collins, Buzz AldinApollo 12 - Charles Conrad Jr., Dick Gordon, Alan BeanApollo 13 - Jim Lovell, Fred W. HaiseApollo 14 - Alan Shepard Jr., Stuart A Roosa, Edgar MitchellApollo 15 - Dave Scott, Al WordenApollo 16 - Charlie DukeApollo 17 - Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt Limited Edition #581 of 1000Image Size: 15"w x 17 1/4"h (26" x 32" sheet size)Release Year: September 1994 Alan Bean was the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the Moon, the Spacecraft Commander of Skyab 3, and, after retiring from the U.S. Navy and NASA, focused on painting. Bean wrote about In the Beginning... "I knew that creating an image to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first lunar landing and the achievement of the Apollo program would be difficult. I wanted to depict some of our most important accomplishments on the moon and, most of all, the spirit of the adventure as we experienced it. But how does one show in a single scene the dedication, the intensity, the sacrifice, the sense of duty, history and patriotism that engulfed all of us in our quest for the moon? I wasn’t sure if it could be done.I made a number of preliminary sketches, but none seemed adequate. I talked with other artists, fellow astronauts, and interested friends. Then an artist friend sent me a rough but imaginative sketch. He didn’t know much about space suits, but he knew a lot about emotion and design. His idea served as the basis for this image. Thanks, Peter Landa.Two months later, when my painting was almost complete, I made a list of 50 title possibilities, but none seemed quiet right. I was talking with Pete Conrad, my fellow Apollo 12 moonwalker and his wife. She said, “I like In the Beginning…” So did we. Thanks, Nancy Conrad.I enjoyed creating "In the Beginning…" because it was created just like Apollo: it was not the handiwork of one person, but of many dedicated people working together to make an ages-old dream come true. That was decades ago, and a lot of wonderful memories, ago. Thanks, America."

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Location: Sedona, Arizona

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