David M. Brown
Born	David McDowell Brown ( 1956-04-16 ) April 16, 1956 Arlington County, Virginia
Died	February 1, 2003 (2003-02-01) (aged 46) Airspace over Texas
Nationality	American
Awards
Space career
NASA Astronaut
Previous occupation	Test pilot
Rank	Captain , USN
Time in space	15d 22h 20m
Selection	NASA Astronaut Group 16 (1996)
Missions	STS-107
Mission insignia

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 . ^[1]

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• David Brown STS-107 Crew Memorial Archived 2012-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Captain David Brown Aerospace and Medical Research Endowment
• Florida Today ? Florida Tech dedicates dorms to Columbia 7 ? October 29, 2003

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