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.
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