"Brown, David Macdowell"@en . . "1956-04-16Z"^^ . "1.3764e+06"^^ . "2003Z"^^ . "Deceased" . . . "American astronaut" . . "David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 \u2013 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."@en . . "1956Z"^^ . . . . "David McDowell Brown"@en . "2003-02-01Z"^^ .