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Alan Bean

 

Guest Speakers 2008 John Dobson Charles M Duke Jr Jack Triple Nickel Stephen J O'Meara Guy Cosolmagno David Levy Cosmonauts Alan Bean Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin Chris Lintott Fred Haise

On Thursday October 11th  2007 @ 7:30pm. 

Ken Willoughby & Carleton Community High School

Presented

An Evening With Alan Bean.   (Apollo XII & 4th Man to walk on the Moon.)

Carleton Community High School, Green Lane, Pontefract, WF8 3NW.

           

Alan Bean was Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo XII and also flew on Skylab 3 in 1973 performing one 'spacewalk.' 

Apollo XII was launched on November 14th 1969 and landed at Oceanus Procellarum on November 19th returning to Earth on November 24th.

Conrad & Bean deployed several Lunar Surface Experiments and installed the first Nuclear Power Generator on the Moon to provide the power source and collected 34.35kg of Moon Rock.

Sponsored by:

 

Ken Willoughby.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Aim Higher.
Alamo Business Systems.
Halfpenny Lane School, Pontefract.

ISSP - Independent State Schools Partnership.

Carleton Community High School.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Kings High School, Pontefract.
Wakefield Girls High School.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield.


Councils:


Ward 1, Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton. Sarah Balfour. Allan Garbutt. Jean Martin.
Ward 12, Pontefract North. Pat Garbutt. Jack Kershaw. Clive Tennant.
Ward 13, Pontefract South. Philip Booth. Trevor Izon. Geoff Walsh.