Vance D. Brand, born May 9, 1931 in Longmont, Colorado, is a former NASA astronaut, who flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project and three Space Shuttle missions.
In July 1975, he was Command Module Pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project with Tom Stafford and Deke Slayton, the first joint mission between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
In November 1982, he served as Commander aboard Columbia (STS-5), the first mission to deploy satellites.
His third trip into space was Commander aboard Challenger (STS-41-B) in February 1984. which featured the first untethered spacewalk by Bruce McCandless.
His fourth and final mission was aboard Columbia (STS-35) in December 1990. At the time he was the oldest person to go into space at 59.
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