Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then…

- Alan Bean

I think everything depends on money.

- Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

- Alan Bean

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

- Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

- Alan Bean

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

- Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

- Alan Bean

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

- Alan Bean

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

- Alan Bean