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Vance Brand

Vance D. Brand, a recognized aerospace engineer and test pilot with almost 10,000 flying hours, is perhaps best known as for his career as a NASA astronaut. Brand flew to space on four missions: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS-41B and STS-35.

S71-51263 (21 Sept. 1971) --- Astronaut Vance D. Brand.
Portrait of astronaut Vance Brand
S67-30404 (May 1967) --- Portrait of astronaut group selected April 4, 1966. Seated, left to right, are Edward G. Givens...
Portrait of the NASA's 5th group of astronauts, composed of 19 men.
S70-34902 (14 April 1970) --- Several persons important to the Apollo 13 mission, at consoles in the Mission Operations Control...
Astronauts at Mission Control During Apollo 13
The Skylab 4 backup crew of Vance D. Brand, left, William B. Lenoir, and Don L. Lind
Photo of the Skylab 4 backup crew of Vance D. Brand, left, William B. Lenoir, and Don L. Lind
S74-15241 (January 1974) --- These three NASA astronauts are the United States flight crew for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project...
S75-24030 (8-10 Feb. 1975) --- The five prime crew members of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission pose for a...
The prime crew members of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project pose together at Kennedy Space Center
S75-22747 (25 Feb. 1975) --- An interior view of the Apollo Command Module trainer in Building 35 showing the three...
Deke Slayton, Vance Brand, and Tom Stafford sit in the Apollo Command Module trainer
S75-28361 (9 July 1975) --- These ten American astronauts compose the U.S. prime crew, the backup crew and the crew...
The 10 astronauts that compose the prime, backup, and support crews for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
S75-22410 (March 1975) --- These five men compose the two prime crews of the joint United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project...
Official portrait of the 5 men, 3 American astronauts and 2 Soviet cosmonauts that participated in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
S75-28504 (17 July 1975) --- The American ASTP crewmen search the skies for the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in this humorous...
Artwork by Aleksey Leonov of Vance Brand, Deke Slayton, and Tom Stafford riding on the top of the Apollo spacecraft in space with the words "Where are they?" below.
Astronauts Thomas Stafford, left, Vance Brand, and Donald “Deke” Slayton in a boilerplate Apollo command module preparing for the water...
Image of three astronauts in white space suits inside their spacecraft seen through the open hatch.
Apollo astronauts Thomas Stafford, left, Vance Brand, and Donald “Deke” Slayton pose in front of their Saturn IB during the...
Image of three male astronauts wearing blue shirts standing in front of a large rocket, only its base is visible.
The prime Apollo crew of Thomas Stafford, left, Vance Brand, and Donald “Deke” Slayton suit up in preparation for an...
Black and white image of three astronauts in recliners wearing white spacesuits with technicians assisting them
AST-06-318 (15-24 July 1975) --- Astronaut Vance D. Brand, command module pilot of the American ASTP crew, is seen in...
Vance Brand floating through the hatchway between the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft
AST-06-344 (15-24 July 1975) --- Two American ASTP crewmen, astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (foreground) and Vance D. Brand are seen...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Commanding Officer of the USS New Orleans, Captain Ralph E. Neiger, welcomes aboard ASTP...
Captain Ralph E. Neiger, welcomes aboard ASTP astronauts Thomas Stafford, Donald Slayton and Vance Brand.
President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a model set during a meeting with the crews...
President Ford With the Crews
S78-27531 (22 March 1978) --- These eight men have been named on four two-man crews who will fly the space...
C. Gordon Fullerton, left, Vance D. Brand, Jack R. Lousma, Fred W. Haise, Richard H. Truly, Joe H. Engle, Robert L. Crippen, and John W. Young appear behind a table at a NASA press conference.
S82-36286 (15 Aug. 1982) --- These four men will be aboard the space shuttle Columbia for NASA's first operational Space...
Official crew portrait for STS-5. They are astronauts Vance D. Brand (second left), STS-5 commander; Robert F. Overmyer (second right), pilot; and Joseph P. Allen (left) and William B. Lenoir, both mission specialists. They pose with a space shuttle model and the official insignia for STS-5.
STS005-07-267 (12 Nov. 1982) --- A pre-set 35mm camera?s exposure of all four STS-5 astronaut crew members reveals a bit...
The crew of STS-5 poses for a group shot. Commander Vance Brand holds a sign that says "Ace Moving Co."
STS005-04-124 (14 Nov. 1982) --- Three members of the four-man STS-5 crew demonstrate the zero-gravity environment aboard the Earth-orbiting space...
Three STS-5 astronauts oriented in different directions on space shuttle Columbia while in Earth orbit
STS005-06-210 (16 Nov. 1982) --- Astronaut Vance D. Brand (in dark blue shirt), STS-5 commander; Robert F. Overmyer (left), pilot;...
Photo of Vance Brand, in the foreground, wearing a dark blue shirt and Robert Overmyer and William Lenoir with a microgravity experiment setup on the STS-5 mission.
S86-38100 (2 Oct. 1986) --- Astronaut Vance D. Brand.
Portrait of Vance Brand
S83-40555 (15 October 1983) --- These five astronauts are in training for the STS-41B mission, scheduled early next year. On...
Portrait of the 5-man crew of STS-41B
S84-26935 (31 Jan 1984) --- Three members of the STS 41-B astronaut crew arrive in Florida following a brief T-38...
Crew of STS-41B walking in front of a T-38 aircraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The crew of 41B STS-11, the first spaceflight in history to begin and conclude a mission...
The crew of STS-41B descend a staircase from the space shuttle Challenger
S84-27026 (3-11 Feb. 1984) --- The "star burst" type informal portrait of Space Shuttle crews has become somewhat of a...
The 5-man crew of STS-41B take a group photo on the space shuttle
Vance D. Brand August 20, 1998
Dryden People
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin (left) and Apollo-Soyuz and space shuttle astronaut Vance Brand discuss Dryden's work on an Orion...
Buzz Aldrin and Vance Brand talking together in front of an Orion fit-check crew module mockup.
At an Apollo 13 gala in April 2015, a panel discussion included backup Lunar Module pilot Charlie Duke, far left,...
Apollo 13 Reunion
Former Apollo Astronaut Vance Brand leads a discussion about Apollo and beyond at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California,...
Vance Brand speaking at an event at Armstrong Flight Research Center
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the Astronaut Hall of Fame are applauded by the guests at the Astronaut...
Members of the Astronaut Hall of Fame
On July 19, 2010, at RSC-Energia in Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and senior Russian space industry officials met...
Russian Prime Minister Meets with Apollo-Soyuz Crew