Vance D. Brand

E186835

NASA astronaut aerospace engineer human military officer test pilot

Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Vance D. Brand canonical	8
Vance D. Brand – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NASA astronaut ⓘ aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ test pilot ⓘ
awardReceived	NASA Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ NASA Exceptional Service Medal ⓘ NASA Space Flight Medal ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1931-05-09 ⓘ
educatedAt	Naval Postgraduate School ⓘ surface form: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School University of Colorado Boulder ⓘ
employer	NASA ⓘ surface form: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
familyName	Brand ⓘ
fieldOfWork	aerospace engineering ⓘ astronautics ⓘ
givenName	Vance ⓘ
hasFlownOnVehicle	Apollo command and service module ⓘ surface form: Apollo Command/Service Module Space Shuttle Challenger ⓘ Space Shuttle Columbia ⓘ Space Shuttle Discovery ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
militaryBranch	United States Marine Corps ⓘ
militaryRank	Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve ⓘ
notableAchievement	flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions ⓘ served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project ⓘ
notableFor	participation in U.S.–Soviet space cooperation ⓘ role in early Space Shuttle program ⓘ
notableWork	participation in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first joint U.S.–Soviet space mission ⓘ
occupation	aerospace engineer ⓘ astronaut ⓘ fighter pilot ⓘ test pilot ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Longmont, Colorado, United States ⓘ
residence	Colorado ⓘ surface form: Colorado, United States
roleInMission	command module pilot on Apollo–Soyuz Test Project ⓘ commander of STS-35 ⓘ commander of STS-41-B ⓘ commander of STS-5 ⓘ
selectedAsAstronautBy	NASA Astronaut Group 5 ⓘ
selectionYearAsAstronaut	1966 ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spaceMission	Apollo–Soyuz Test Project ⓘ STS-35 ⓘ STS-41B ⓘ surface form: STS-41-B STS-5 with Columbia ⓘ surface form: STS-5
status	retired ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Vance D. Brand
Description of subject: Vance D. Brand is a former NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and served as command module pilot on the historic Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

STS-41B → commander → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

Apollo–Soyuz Test Project → crewMember → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

Apollo 15 → backupCommandModulePilot → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

STS-5 with Columbia → crewMember → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

subject surface form: STS-5

STS-5 with Columbia → commander → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

subject surface form: STS-5

NASA Astronaut Group 6 → member → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

NASA Astronaut Group 6 → memberFlewOnMission → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vance D. Brand – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Vance Brand Airport → namedAfter → Vance D. Brand ⓘ

NASA Astronaut Group 5 → member → Vance D. Brand ⓘ