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They are dying due to old age, it's as simple as that.

Don't you ever wonder why we stopped going to the moon several people walked on the moon but they stopped going ...... the first time they landed on the moon was in 1969 and here it is2018 don't you think that they should be some colony on the moon people living on the moon now they stopped using the space shuttle now you tell me how they going to put someone in space ....hitch a ride with another country I am just thinking about it

Rest in peace. I remember well the Gemini and Apollo missions. Glory days for our nation.

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Former Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the moon and later turned to painting to chronicle the moon landings on canvas, has died. He was 86.

Bean was the lunar module pilot for the second moon landing mission in November 1969. He spent 31 hours on the moon during two moonwalks, deploying surface experiments with commander Charles Conrad and collecting 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of rocks and lunar soil for study back on Earth, according to a statement from NASA and Bean's family that announced his death.

Bean died Saturday in Houston, Texas, following a short illness, the statement said.

"As all great explorers are, Alan was a boundary pusher," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement that credited Bean with being part of 11 world records in the areas of space and aeronautics. "We will remember him fondly as the great explorer who reached out to embrace the universe."

With Bean's passing, only four of 12 Apollo moonwalkers are still alive �" Buzz Aldrin, Dave Scott, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.