Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9, 1931) is an American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as command...
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Duration: 6 hours, 17 minutes The STS-41-B crew included commander Vance D. Brand, making his second Shuttle flight; pilot Robert L. Gibson; and mission...
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launched with a crew of two and return a crew of five.: 1–1 Astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind were assigned as the rescue crew, in the event of the mission's...
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Apollo module to fly. The three American astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, and Deke Slayton, and two Soviet cosmonauts, Alexei Leonov and Valery...
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journalist and essayist Vance D. Brand (born 1931), NASA astronaut Vance Breese (1904–1973), American aviation engineer and test pilot Vance Dixon (1901–?), American...
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retire from NASA in May 1989 and was replaced as mission commander by Vance D. Brand. In addition, Richard N. Richards (as pilot) and David C. Leestma (as...
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USMC, retired) Gerald P. Carr (Skylab 4 - Colonel, USMC, retired) Vance D. Brand (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Command Module Pilot) - USMC 1953–1957,...
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on October 5, 1967. He was replaced by Bean, who flew on Apollo 12. Vance D. Brand – from Group 5; was on the support crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 13;...
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engineering program. The backup crew was Richard F. Gordon Jr. as commander, Vance D. Brand as command module pilot and Harrison H. Schmitt as Lunar Module pilot...
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plan, and checklists, and kept them updated; for Apollo 13, they were Vance D. Brand, Jack Lousma and either William Pogue or Joseph Kerwin. For Apollo 13...
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"operational" Space Shuttle mission. Roy D. Bridges Jr. (entry CAPCOM) Michael Coats Richard O. Covey Bryan D. O'Connor Jon McBride Robert L. Stewart (ascent...
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son of Theodor Ulrich Brand (born 1967), German political scientist Vance D. Brand (born 1931), American astronaut William Brand (1888–1979), Australian...
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the Apollo 15 backup crew: Richard F. Gordon Jr. (commander (CDR)) Vance D. Brand (Command Module pilot (CMP)) Harrison Schmitt (Lunar Module pilot (LMP))...
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High School David Bote (b. 1993), MLB baseball player, Longmont native Vance D. Brand (b. 1931), NASA astronaut, graduate of Longmont High School Elizabeth...
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Airlines (1975–1986), recipient of Congressional Space Medal of Honor Vance D. Brand b. 1931 Astronaut Flew on Apollo–Soyuz and three Space Shuttle missions...
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imagine. Lind Lind served as backup pilot alongside backup commander Vance D. Brand and backup science pilot Lenoir for Skylab 3 and Skylab 4, the second...
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United States Naval Test Pilot School (category 1945 establishments in Washington, D.C.)
(1959, Class 23) Alan Bean (Class 26) Richard G. Thomas (Class 31) Vance D. Brand (Class 33) Frederick Gregory (Class 58) Charles Bolden (former NASA...
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Soyuz 18a USSR 5 April 1975 International docking Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton – USA Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov – USSR Apollo...
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the Skylab space station in order to boost it into a higher orbit. Vance D. Brand and C. Gordon Fullerton were their backups. By April 1979, when it was...
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the run-up to the mission. A three-astronaut crew (Joseph P. Kerwin, Vance D. Brand and Joe H. Engle) was inside a CM that was placed in a vacuum chamber...
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Leestma were reassigned to STS-28 while McBride left NASA in 1989. Vance D. Brand replaced McBride as the commander while Guy S. Gardner and John M. Lounge...
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Pozinsky Martin L. Raines Lee R. Scherer John M. Thole Robert F. Thompson Vance D. Brand Robert H. Curtin M. P. Frank Donald P. Hearth Chester M. Lee Glynn S...
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monument are: William Anders Neil Armstrong Charles Bassett Alan Bean Vance D. Brand Gerald P. Carr Eugene Cernan Roger B. Chaffee Walter Cunningham Charles...
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History Transcript, Johnson Space Center Oral History Project (PDF). Washington D.C.: NASA. p. 10. Retrieved June 21, 2016. "A Field Guide to American Spacecraft"...
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Lousma were named as the prime crew for the original STS-2 mission, with Vance D. Brand and C. Gordon Fullerton as backups "NASA – STS-2". NASA. Retrieved May...
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& Space Hall of Fame, inducted in 2001, along with Valeri Kubasov, Vance D. Brand, Deke Slayton, and Thomas P. Stafford Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007) Elmer...
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Space Center, Florida, on November 11, 1982. He was accompanied by Vance D. Brand (spacecraft commander), Col. Robert F. Overmyer (pilot), and Dr. William...
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Position Astronaut Commander Vance D. Brand Science Pilot William Lenoir Pilot Don L. Lind...
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the story of Apollo and the special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, Jules Verne's...
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Position Astronaut Commander Vance D. Brand Science Pilot William B. Lenoir Pilot Don L. Lind...
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