";s:4:"text";s:4715:"The most recent scholarship is sponsored by Kathy and Dick Covey and The Covey Love Legacy Fund. It was their job,” said Amy Bean, 56, and a resident of Boerne.Gene Cernan and Alan Bean were both naval aviators who were chosen for NASA’s third astronaut class in 1963.
But the one about the moondust inspired music, “Tracy’s Song” by No More Kings, and earned a still-talked-about mention in a 2012 episode of the ABC sit-com, “Modern Family.”She was having dinner with her parents and her phone blew up. Astronaut Gene Cernan, right, holds 6-year-old Amy Bean and stands with Sue Bean (center), Sue’s mother Floy Mae Ragsdale, and the Beans’ son, 12-year-old Clay, during the Apollo 12 launch, for which astronaut Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot.A young Amy Bean with her father, astronaut Alan Bean.NASA astronaut Alan Bean with wife Sue and children, Amy and Clay.Photo: Art Uhlmann / World Book Encyclopedia Science Service Inc.American astronaut Gene Cernan's daughter Tracy Cernan Woolie, 56, and Cernan's first wife Barbara Cernan Butler, 81, at Cernan Butler's Houston home.Photo: Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerFrom left, Sue Bean, Barbara Cernan (Butler) and Barbara Gordon were photographed at a dinner party at the Cernan home when Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon was orbiting the moon in 1969. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. At the same time, Alan Bean and astronaut Charles Conrad were preparing for their second moon walk.Sue Bean, wife of astronaut Alan Bean, and their daughter Amy, in a photo taken around the time of the Skylab Splashdown.Astronaut Charles 'Pete' Conrad waves as he and Richard Gordon, center, and Alan Bean leave for the launch pad for their Apollo 12 moon flight in November 1969.From left, Tracy Cernan Woolie, Barbara Cernan Butler, Sue Bean and Amy Bean pose at a space exhibit. Prior to working for the Chronicle, she worked at the South Bend (Ind.) The Soviets sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space first in 1961, and President John F. Kennedy gave his famous space race speech at Rice University the next year.Bean, Cernan and everyone else at NASA worked nonstop designing space modules, testing equipment and figuring out how to get crews to the moon and back. The women are wearing lei's, an Hawaiian tradition. Rev. “I’ve thought that all my life, and my father reinforced it, ‘If you work hard enough, there is nothing you cannot do.’ Now that shapes you.”Diane Cowen has worked at the Houston Chronicle since 2000 and currently its architecture and home design writer. Her then-husband, Gene Cernan, was the pilot.From left, astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, and Charles Duke during a live TV interview in 2009, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.The Apollo 12 crew, from left, Charles "Pete" Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean, in an undated file photo.Artist Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon, is shown during a preview of his work at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2008 in Austin. Their daughters, Tracy and Amy, have been lifelong friends.A group of astronaut wives joins Barbara Cernan to watch the 1966 Gemini IX launch of her husband, Gene Cernan, and astronaut Thomas Stafford. The crew men, looking out the MQF window at the crowd, are from left to right, astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean. We witnessed our parents overcome tragedy, loss, and learn from it,” she said. Their dads were astronauts, but many of their neighbors were, too, and most others were engineers or in some way connected to the space program.“When I was a child it was all I knew. "Astronaut families: Wives, children of Apollo astronauts look back on ‘amazing’ time Cernan commanded NASA’s last mission to land on the moon in 1972. A second scholarship was announced in fall 2019 sponsored by Marc and Sharon Hagle. They’d visit Cape Canaveral in Florida or learn survival skills somewhere in the desert or in the jungles of South or Central America.The Beans and Cernans have remained close friends since they met in the early 1960s and still reminisce on those times and how the wives worked to keep things together at home.“The wives were close because the guys were gone so much and so often,” said Sue Bean.
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