Volume 52, Number 1 (1999) Winter

Two remarkable paintings by Captain Alan Bean, U.S. Navy (Retired), an astronaut from 1963 until 1981 and now probably the world's preeminent space artist. On the front of the issue appears Captain Bean's "Homeward Bound": Apollo 8 with astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders on board orbits the moon for the last time on 25 December 1968. On the back cover, in "Kissing the Earth," Alan Bean and Pete Conrad in the Apollo 12 lunar module Intrepid approach a landing on the ocean of Storms.