Daniel Brandenstein, born January 17, 1943 in Watertown, Wisconsin, is a veteran of four space shuttle flights. After college, he went in the US Navy and became a naval aviator.
His first flight was on Challenger (STS-8) as pilot in August-September 1983. One of the mission's objective was to test the use of the Canadarm remote manipulator system to do some testing on the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, which had been launched previously.
He served as commander on his second flight, Discovery (STS-51-G) in June 1985. It was also the first flight for Shannon Lucid and Sultan Salman Al Saud of the Royal Saudi Air Force.
His third flight was aboard Columbia (STS-32) as commander in January 1990. This mission deployed and captured satellites during its time in space.
Brandenstein's fourth and last flight was aboard Endeavour (STS-49) as commander in May 1992. It took three astronauts in EVA to retrieve a communications satellite.
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