David M. Brown, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2003)

David M. Brown

American astronaut (1956–2003)

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…