{"id":494,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/astronaut/494/?format=json","name":"David M. Brown","status":{"id":4,"name":"Lost In Flight"},"type":{"id":2,"name":"Government"},"agency":{"id":44,"url":"https://lldev.thespacedevs.com/2.0.0/agencies/44/?format=json","name":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","type":"Government"},"date_of_birth":"1956-04-16","date_of_death":"2003-02-01","nationality":"American","twitter":null,"instagram":null,"bio":"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.","profile_image":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/david_m._brown_image_20220911033916.jpeg","profile_image_thumbnail":"https://thespacedevs-dev.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/images/255bauto255d__image_thumbnail_20240305190853.jpeg","wiki":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Brown","flights":[],"landings":[],"last_flight":"2003-01-16T15:39:00Z","first_flight":"2003-01-16T15:39:00Z"}