Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2003.
1Flight
15d 22hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
David McDowell Brown 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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Arlington County
- Education
- College of William & Mary; United States Naval Test Pilot School; Yorktown High School
- Awards
- Congressional Space Medal of Honor; NASA Distinguished Service Medal; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Humanitarian Service Medal; and 6 more
From Wikidata.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-107January 16, 2003
Born 1956-04-16 · died 2003-02-01, aged 46