Brand Honored At Jethawks' Aerospace Appreciation Night

[Jacques van Oene]

Dryden Flight Research Center
P.O. Box 273
Edwards, California 93523
Phone 661/276-3449
FAX 661/276-3566

Alan Brown
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Phone: 661/276-2665


Aug. 22, 2005
RELEASE: 05-56P


Brand Honored At Jethawks' Aerospace Appreciation Night

Former Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle astronaut Vance Brand was honored this
past weekend by the Lancaster Jethawks Class A California League baseball
team during its annual Aerospace Appreciation Night.

Brand, currently deputy associate director of aerospace programs at NASA's
Dryden Flight Research Center and a resident of Tehachapi, and fellow
astronaut / research pilot Gordon Fullerton flew two low-level passes in a
NASA T-38 over the stadium just before game time.

Brand then returned to sign autographs on hundreds of bobblehead dolls in
his likeness for appreciative fans.

The evening was complete when the Jethawks defeated the Lake Elsinore Storm,
followed by a fireworks display after the game concluded.


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Jacques :-)

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