Dave Brown
American astronaut
Born on: April 16, 1956Died on: February 1, 2003
Aged: 46 years 291 days (561 months)
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Aries
David McDowell Brown was a United States Navy captain and 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. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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