Vance Brand

Group 5 (1966)

Vance Brand

Apollo-Soyuz command module pilot who went on to command three shuttle flights.

Vance Brand, a Marine aviator turned civilian test pilot, flew as command module pilot on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975, the final flight of an Apollo spacecraft.

He commanded three shuttle missions, including STS-5 — the shuttle’s first operational flight — and flew his last mission at age 59. Across four flights he logged 746 hours in space without ever, by his own cheerful admission, getting to walk in it.

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