Vance D. Brand

Vance DeVoe Brand is an American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as commander of three Space Shuttle missions.

9 May 1931

Born on the same birth day (9 May): Adam Opel • Brandon Webb • Glenda Jackson • Grant Hackett • Jerónima de la Asunción • John Brougham • Joy Harjo • Manfred Eigen • Meles Zenawi • Nokie Edwards • Pancho Gonzales • Tommy Edman

Born in the same month (May 1931): Alvin Lucier • André Barbeau • Don Martin (cartoonist) • Faten Hamama • James Fitz-Allen Mitchell • Jim Jones • John Chapple (British Army officer) • Robert Morse • Willie Mays