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Jan Kowalski David M. Brown
Geburtsdatum 16.04.1956
Sterbedatum 01.02.2003
Nationalität American
Weltraumagentur National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Status Verloren im Flug
Astronautentyp Staatliche Agentur
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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.