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1931 - Submit Photo / Document
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Name |
Vance Devoe Brand |
Born |
9 May 1931 |
Longmont, Boulder, Colorado |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
1940 |
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1940 Brand. 1940 US census, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado, enumeration district 7-50A, Family Number 375, Brand. |
Census |
1950 |
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1950 Brand. 1950 US census, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, enumeration district 7-56, Line Number 10, Brand. Note: Living at the Sigma Nu Fraternity House. |
Military Service |
U.S. Marine Corps |
Occupation |
1966 |
Astronaut |
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Vance Brand. 1n 1966 Vance was one of 19 selected to be an astronaut trainee as part of the 5th group of trainees. |
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Apollo XIII. Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 oxygen cell failure. Seated at consoles, from left to right, are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations; Astronaut Jack R. Lousma, Shift 3 spacecraft communicator; and Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 13 back-up crew. Standing, left to right, are Astronaut Tom K. Mattingly, who was replaced as Apollo 13 command module pilot after it was learned he may come down with measles, and Astronaut Vance D. Brand, Shift 2 spacecraft communicator. |
Occupation |
15 Jul 1975 |
Apollo Command Module Pilot on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. |
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Program Patch. Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission. |
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Apollo-Soyuz Crews. Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (standing on left), commander of the American crew; cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (standing on right), commander of the Soviet crew; astronaut Donald K. Slayton (seated on left), docking module pilot of the American crew; astronaut Vance D. Brand (seated center), command module pilot of the American crew; and cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov (seated on right), engineer on the Soviet crew. |
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Saturn 1B. Apollo-Soyuz Test, Saturn 1B rocket waits on the launch pad. |
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Apollo-Soyuz American Lift-Off. Apollo-Soyuz American Lift-Off. |
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Apollo-Soyuz Soviet Lift-Off. Apollo-Soyuz Soviet Lift-Off. |
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Apollo Spacecraft with Docking Module. Apollo Spacecraft with Docking Module as photographed by the Soyuz crew. The docking module adapted the two different spacecraft together. It was carried into space by the Americans in the same fashion as the lunar lander had been by earlier Apollo missions. |
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Brand Docking. Vance at the controls of the Apollo Command module during the docking with the Soyuz spacecraft. |
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Soyuz Spacecraft. Soyuz Spacecraft as photographed from the Apollo capsule. |
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Apollo Soyuz Docking. Artist conception of the two space craft about to dock. The Apollo astronauts spent 9 days 1 hour and 28 minutes in space. The Soyuz crew spent 5 days 22 hours and 30 minutes in space. They spent 47 hours and 7 minutes docked together. |
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Brand Floating. Vance floating through the passage of the docking module to enter the Soyuz spacecraft. |
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Apollo Capsule Returns. Apollo Capsule Returns. |
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Apollo Capsule Recovery. Navy divers work to secure the capsule. The astronauts remained in the capsule until it was hoisted aboard the recovery ship, the USS New Orleans.
At the end of the flight noxious nitrogen tetroxide fumes from the command module's control thrusters was accidently sucked into the cabin during landing. The crew was hospitalized as a precaution. While there a lesion was discovered on Slayton's lung and removed. Had it been found before the mission it likely would have resulted in him being grounded a second time causing him to miss this opportunity. |
Occupation |
11 Nov 1982 |
Shuttle Mission STS-5 |
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STS-5 Patch.
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Columbia STS-5 Space Shuttle Columbia sits on Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Shuttle is being prepared for launch on November 11, 1982. |
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STS-5 Leaves The Launch Tower. Having completed its four-mission test program, the space shuttle Columbia begins the first operational shuttle flight. |
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STS-5 Liftoff.
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STS-5 Crew. The sign held by Commander Vance D. Brand, refers to the successful deployment of two commercial communications satellites on the flight's first two days. Brand is surrounded by, clockwise, left to right, astronauts William B. Lenoir, mission specialist, Robert F. Overmyer, pilot, and Joseph O. Allen IV, mission specialist, in the middeck area of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Columbia. |
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STS-5 Lands At Sunset. STS-5 Lands At Sunset. |
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Columbia Post STS-5.
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Occupation |
3 Feb 1984 |
Shuttle Mission STS-41-B |
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STS-41-B Patch. STS-41-B Patch. After mission STS-9 the numbering system was revised. This mission would have been STS-11 thus there are 11 stars depicted on the patch. |
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STS-41-B Crew. The crew; (seated left to right) Vance D. Brand, commander; and Robert L. Gibson, pilot. Standing left to right are mission specialists Robert L. Stewart, Ronald E. McNair, and Bruce McCandless. |
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STS-41-B Waiting on the Launch Pad. At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure has pulled back to the prelaunch position, the shuttle Challenger sits at Launch Pad 39-A ready to embark on it fourth space mission STS-41B, the 10th flight of the space shuttle. |
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STS-41-B Liftoff. STS-41-B Liftoff. |
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Bruce McCandless II during EVA. During the STS-41-B mission astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first man to venture outside of a spacecraft untethered. |
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STS-41-B Landing. When the shuttle Challenger landed it marked the first time a shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center. |
Occupation |
2 Dec 1990 |
Shuttle Mission STS-35 |
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STS-35 Patch. STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, the 38th shuttle flight, it's mission was devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1, a Spacelab observatory. The patch depicts the constellation Orion to symbolize the things that were to be studied. |
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STS-35 Crew. The five astronauts and two payload specialists were assigned to NASA's STS-35 mission. Astronaut Vance D. Brand, center front and holding STS-35 insignia, making his fourth space flight and his third STS mission, served as mission commander. He is flanked on the front row by Pilot Guy S. Gardner and Mission Specialist (MS) John M. Lounge. On the back row (left to right) are MS Robert A.R. Parker, Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise, MS Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance.
“I don’t feel any different than I did a few years ago, but I do realize that this probably will be my last spaceflight.” - Apollo veteran and STS-35 Commander Vance Brand. |
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STS-35 Pass. Atlantis, slated for mission STS-38, is parked in front of bay three of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following its rollback from Pad 39A for repairs to the liquid hydrogen lines.
Space shuttle Columbia (left), scheduled for mission STS-35, is rolled past space shuttle Atlantis on its way to Pad 39A. |
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STS-35 Liftoff. Columbia clears the launch tower at 1:49am Eastern Standard Time |
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STS-35 In Flight Portrait. STS-35 In Flight Portrait. |
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Astro 1. Four instruments made up the Astro-1 Observatory: the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE), and the Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT). The Astro ultraviolet telescopes photograph the UV sky (imaging), measure the energy distribution of UV wavelengths (spectroscopy), and analyze the intensity and orientation of UV light (photometry and polarimetry). The Astro X-ray telescope uses spectroscopy to measure the energy distribution of X-ray photons.
By using more than one instrument, Astro-1 gathered different types of information at the same time on the same objects. It was the first observatory that could simultaneously take ultraviolet pictures of objects, study their ultraviolet and X-ray spectra, and determine brightness and structure through photometry and polarimetry.
Astro-1 viewed targets ranging from our solar system’s backyard to the depths of the cosmos. The target list included virtually every kind of object in the astrophysical sky, from tightly grouped clusters of stars to large, tenuous nebulas. |
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Astro 1 The Astro-1 instrument package extending out the open shuttle cargo bay doors. |
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STS-35 Landing. STS-35 Landing at Edwards Air Force Base.
It was originally hoped that if they carefully conserved power the mission could be extended by one day. Unfortunately the mission was cut short by one day due to impending bad weather at the primary landing site.
The shuttle landed at 10:54 PM Pacific Time. |
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STS-35 Returns. After Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft departs to return the orbiter to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. |
Occupation |
1992 |
Retirement |
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Veteran Astronaut Hangs Up Spacesuit. The Florida Today, Cocoa, Florida, Sunday, March 15, 1992 Section, E, page 9. |
Philanthropy |
2019 |
In 1967 Vance purchased 40 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park. He donated the land to become part of the park. Congressional legislation to approve the boarder change is pending. |
Siblings |
1. Robert C Brand, b. 18 Jul 1937, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado , d. 10 Aug 2015, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado | |
Person ID |
I64531 |
Nagel |
Last Modified |
22 May 2022 |
Father |
Rudolph William Brand, b. 14 Aug 1903, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado , d. Feb 1984, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado (Age 80 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Mother |
Donna Mae DeVoe, b. 4 Aug 1908, Butler, Richland, Ohio , d. 28 Mar 1998, Longmont, Boulder, Colorado (Age 89 years) |
Relationship |
Birth |
Married |
31 Oct 1929 |
Longmont, Boulder, Colorado |
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Brand-Devoe Marriage. Brand-Devoe Marriage. |
Family ID |
F19977 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
Joan Virginia Weninger, b. 1 Jul 1934, Chicago, Cook, Illinois , d. 7 Feb 1989, Alexandria, Virginia (Age 54 years) |
Married |
25 Jul 1953 |
Divorced |
5 Oct 1978 |
Harris County, Texas |
Children |
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Last Modified |
22 May 2022 |
Family ID |
F19978 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Born - 9 May 1931 - Longmont, Boulder, Colorado |
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| Divorced - 5 Oct 1978 - Harris County, Texas |
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Photos
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| Vance D. Brand. Vance D. Brand. |
| Apollo-Soyuz Mission Crew. The three NASA astronauts of the United States flight crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. left to right, Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot; Vance D. Brand, command module pilot; and Thomas P. Stafford, commander. |
| Vance D Brand Vance D Brand - Part of the 5th group of astronaut trainees selected in 1966. He commanded the Apollo-Soyuz mission and three shuttle missions. |
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| Vance Brand Family. Astronaut Vance D. Brand poses for a family portrait with his wife, Joan, and their four children, Susan (seated on left), Stephanie (seated on right), Patrick (standing on right) and Kevin (standing on left) and the family dog. |
Stamps & Coins |
| Apollo-Soyuz. A Russian 10 Kopek commemorative stamp with pictures of both astronaut and cosmonaut crews and flags. |
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