Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut

Vance D. Brand

American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (born 1931)

Vance DeVoe Brand is a retired American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as commander of three Space Shuttle missions.