David M. Brown Quotes


As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.


Citations

Brown, David M. Email to family and friends. Jan. 2003. Quoted in "Columbia Astronaut's Final E-Mail." CBS News, CBS Interactive, 2 Feb. 2003.

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David M. Brown
David M. Brown
  • Born: April 16, 1956
  • Died: February 1, 2003
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Astronaut

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.