Editing Alan Bean (section)

==Personal life and death==
[[File:Alan Bean museum marker IMG 6152.JPG|thumb|right|Alan Bean museum marker in [[Wheeler, Texas]]]]
[[File:AlanBean0005.jpg|thumb|right|Bean presents a piece of Moon rock at the [[Gasometer Oberhausen]] in March 2010]]
Bean took a piece of [[Clan MacBean]] [[tartan]] to the Moon.<ref>{{cite web|last=MacTaggart|first=Ken|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/16258325.obituary-alan-bean-american-scottish-astronaut-who-took-tartan-to-the-moon/|title=American-Scottish astronaut who took tartan to the moon|work=The Herald|date=May 30, 2018|access-date=September 28, 2010}}</ref> In recognition of his Scottish ancestry, Bean stated:
{{blockquote|As I remember it, I took Clan McBean tartan to the Moon and returned it to Earth. […] I did, in fact, give a piece of the tartan to the Clan McBean and also to the St Bean Chapel in Scotland. And I've still got some of it in my possession. I did not, however leave any of it on the Moon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alanbeangallery.com/macbean-story.html|title=Clan MacBean Arrives On The Moon |work=alanbeangallery.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720045038/http://www.alanbeangallery.com/macbean-story.html |archive-date=July 20, 2012 |url-status=live |date=April 30, 2005 |access-date=December 2, 2007}}</ref>}}

He married Sue Ragsdale, a fellow graduate of the University of Texas on April 19, 1955, shortly before her graduation.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1963 |title=Alan Bean and Sue Ragsdale - Background of "new Astronaut and his wife" |pages=3 |work=Pensacola News Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34597256/alan-bean-and-sue-ragsdale-background/ |access-date=January 6, 2023}}</ref> With Ragsdale, Bean had a son, Clay, and a daughter, Amy Sue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slaughter |first=George and Kathy M. |date=January 6, 2023 |title=TSHA {{!}} Bean, Alan LaVern |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bean-alan-lavern |access-date=January 6, 2023 |website=www.tshaonline.org}}</ref><ref name="nasad" /> 

Bean died on May 26, 2018, in [[Houston, Texas]], at the age of 86.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44268960|title=Alan Bean, moon-walking astronaut and artist, dies aged 86|date=May 27, 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref> His death followed the sudden onset of illness two weeks before while he was in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]].<ref name="nasad">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/family-release-regarding-the-passing-of-apollo-skylab-astronaut-alan-bean|title=Family Release Regarding the Passing of Apollo, Skylab Astronaut Alan Bean|date=May 26, 2018|publisher=NASA|access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref> At the time of his death, Bean was married to his second wife, Leslie, and was also survived by his sister, Paula Scott.<ref name="nasad" />

Bean was interred in [[Arlington National Cemetery]] on November 8, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alan Bean Interment (NHQ201811080015) |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/45795772101 |website=Flickr |publisher=NASA |access-date=November 28, 2022 |date=November 8, 2018}}</ref>