| Name: Brand, Vance | Country: USA | M/F: M | Number of Flights: 4 |
| Space Flights | Launch Date - Rocket No. | Landing Date - Rocket No. |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Apollo ASTP (Apollo "18") |
July 15, 1975 - AS-210 | July 24, 1975 - AS-210 |
| Space Flights | Launch Date - Shuttle | Landing Date - Shuttle |
| 2. STS-5 | November 11, 1982 - Columbia | November 16, 1982 - Columbia |
| 3. STS-41B | February 3, 1984 - Challenger | February 11, 1984 - Challenger |
| 4. STS-35 | December 2, 1990 - Columbia | December 11, 1990 - Columbia |
| Space Flights | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Apollo 8 (Support Crew) |
Demonstrated manned space flight in lunar orbit |
| Apollo 13 (Support Crew) |
Manned lunar landing aborted after spacecraft crippled by explosion |
| Apollo 15 (Backup Crew) |
Manned lunar landing at Hadley-Apennine - July 30, 1971 Lunar Liftoff - August 2, 1971 |
| Apollo 18 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew for manned lunar landing in the Schroter's Valley or
Gassendi Crater Cancelled due to congressional budget cuts in 1970 |
| Skylab 3 (Backup Crew) |
Second manned Skylab mission |
| Skylab Rescue (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew Vance Brand and Donald Lind began training for a rescue mission for the Skylab 3 crew when their Apollo spacecraft developed leaks in two thruster quads. The rescue mission was cancelled when the problems were localized and workarounds were developed. The Skylab 3 crew returned to Earth in their Apollo spacecraft at the end of their 59 day mission. |
| Skylab 4 (Backup Crew) |
Third and final manned Skylab mission |
| Skylab 5 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew NASA had considered using the remaining backup Saturn IB and Apollo spacecraft to launch a fourth crew to Skylab for a short 20 day mission. |
| 1. Apollo ASTP | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Apollo spacecraft (CSM-111) docked with Soyuz 19 from July 17, 1975 to July 19, 1975 |
| 2. STS-5 | Deployed Anik C-3 for TELESAT Canada and SBS-3 for Satellite Business Systems First operational flight |
| 3. STS-41B | Deployed Westar VI for Western Union Telegraph and Palapa B-2 for Indonesia Failure of PAM stages left both satellites in low Earth orbit. The satellites were recovered during the STS-51A mission. Shuttle Pallet Satellite 1A (SPAS-1A) became the first satellite to be refurbished and flown again. |
| STS-51H (Cancelled) |
Planned EOM-1 space shuttle mission Cancelled after the Challenger disaster - Mission was combined with STS-61K (EOM-1/2) |
| STS-61K (Cancelled) |
Planned EOM-1/2 space shuttle mission Cancelled after the Challenger disaster - Mission was combined with STS-51H (EOM-1) |
| 4. STS-35 | ASTRO-1 Mission |
| Return to Master List | Four Spaceflights | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project |
| American Astronauts | Space Shuttle Program - 1982 / 1984 / 1990 | |
Updated - June 6, 2006