• Reaching for the Stars for Down to Earth Results • Achievement/Peak Performance • Leadership • The Art of Space Exploration • Teamwork/Teambuilding • Adventure
Alan’s speeches are entertaining, motivating and inspirational. Using colorful slides to illustrate his points, he shares with audiences the things he would want to hear if their roles were reversed. "I want the audience to feel they are looking inside the hearts and minds of the astronauts, scientists, and engineers who worked together as a team, took risks, extended the envelope, and made an impossible dream a reality," he says.
Alan will take each person in the audience along with him as Lunar Module Pilot on the flight of Apollo 12 and along the way present some thoughts and ideas that will help each individual reach for their own professional and personal stars.
By talking with, and listening to the client prior to an event, Alan custom tailors each speech around the theme of the client's event and the specific goals they wish to emphasize. He does this by telling stories from personal experiences during his 18-year career in NASA. Alan can focus on a broad variety of subjects from teamwork, high achievement, risk taking, goal setting, attitude control, achieving maximum potential, creative thinking, leadership, and effective followership, to showing how a company and an individual can find ways to accomplish their goals and dreams and more.
About Alan Bean
Alan Bean was selected as an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1963. During his 18-year NASA career, he achieved a number of accomplishments, including being the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 12 mission and commander of the Skylab Mission II. He became the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 12 mission, and the fourth man to set foot on the moon.
In 1973, he again flew in space as spacecraft commander of the Skylab Mission II. This mission lasted fifty-nine days and traveled 24,400,000 miles. His crew accomplished 150 percent of their pre-mission goals, a record unequaled even today. Alan was then selected as backup spacecraft commander for the joint American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
Alan was assigned as Chief of Operations and Training and Acting Chief Astronaut until the first flight of the space shuttle. Throughout Alan's career as an astronaut when he was not in specific mission training, Alan studied art at nights and on the weekends. In 1981, he resigned as a NASA astronaut to devote full time to painting and speaking.
Today, Alan is an accomplished artist creating paintings that artistically record for future generations humankind's first exploration of another world.
Alan Bean
