Editing Alan Bean (section)

===Post-NASA career===
[[File:AlBeanByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|Bean, February 2009]]
On his next assignment, Bean was the backup spacecraft commander of the United States flight crew for the joint American-Russian [[Apollo-Soyuz Test Project]].<ref name="nasa-bio"/>

Bean retired from the Navy in October 1975 as a [[Captain (United States O-6)|captain]], and continued as head of the Astronaut Candidate Operations and Training Group within the Astronaut Office in a civilian capacity.<ref name="nasa-bio"/><ref name="kennedy19850429">{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=J. Michael |date=April 29, 1985 |title=Shuttle Flight Is Lind's First Mission : Astronaut's 19-Year Wait for Space Trip Ends Today |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-29-mn-12831-story.html |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>

Bean logged 1,671 hours and 45 minutes in space while at [[NASA]], of which 10 hours and 26 minutes were spent in [[Extravehicular activity|EVAs]] on the Moon and in [[Low Earth orbit|Earth orbit]].<ref name="nasa-bio"/>