The astronaut Alan Bean has died aged 86

The astronaut Alan Bean, a member of Nasa’s Apollo 12 mission, who has died aged 86, was the fourth person to step on to the surface of the moon, and the only one to go on to depict the view from outer space in paintings. His fellow astronaut John Glenn described Bean’s work as seeing “the same monochromatic world as [we did] … yet with an artist’s eye he also saw intrinsic beauty”.