Brown, David McDowell, CAPT

• NASA Astronaut and a Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia Mission STS-107. CAPT Brown was killed when the craft disintegrated during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, 01 FEB 2003

Visit other US Navy Astronauts on STS-107 here at NTWS:

CAPT Laurel B. Clark

CDR William C. McCool

Posthumously awarded:

• NASA Space Flight Medal
• NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• Defense Distinguished Service Medal
• Congressional Space Medal of Honor

• Began Naval Career as a Flight Surgeon, and in 1988 was the first Flight Surgeon in 10 years to be selected for Pilot Training.
• Navy Operational Flight Surgeon of the Year -1986
• Designated a Naval Aviator in 1990, ranking number one in his class.
• Qualified to fly the A-6 Intruder, F/A-18 Hornet, and T-38 Talon
• His tour with NTPS was a duel role as the Flight Surgeon and Pilot.

Namesakes:

• Brown Hall in the Columbia Village Apartments, at the Florida Institute of Technology is named in his honor.
• Laurel B. Clark & David M. Brown Aerospace Medicine Academic Center at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute.

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