David M. Brown
David McDowell Brown (April 16,1956 - February 1,2003) was a United States Navy captain and a NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth' s atmosphere.
Brown became an astronaut in 1996, but had not served on a space mission prior to the Columbia disaster. Brown was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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Other websites
David Brown STS-107 Crew Memorial
Captain David Brown Aerospace and Medical Research Endowment
Florida Today -- Florida Tech dedicates dorms to Columbia 7 -- October 29,2003
1956 births
2003 deaths
American astronauts
Aviation deaths in the United States
Scientists from Virginia
People from Arlington County, Virginia