Search the Kids Internet
Encyclopedia > David M. Brown
Article Content
David M. Brown
David Brown (April 16, 1956 - February 1, 2003) was an astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown (of Virginia) became an astronaut in 1996 and this was his first space flight.
After working as a circus acrobat during college, Brown became a Captain in the US Navy.
See also: space science
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
|
Search Encyclopedia
|
Featured Article
|