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发信人: leonado (我爱飞雪), 信区: Green
标 题: David Brown
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年02月02日11:33:08 星期天), 站内信件
Space Shuttle Columbia’s
Mission Specialist
Feb. 1 — U.S. Navy Capt. David Brown was on his first trip to space as a
mission specialist on the shuttle Columbia's final mission.
Brown, 46, a medical doctor, was working on numerous biological experiments
on the flight.
"The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little
bit of everything," Brown said in his official NASA interview before taking
off.
"I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill," he said. "There's not that
many people that get to do that. We're going to have the most amazing views,
looking out the window, of the Earth. And at the same time, we get to
participate in some fundamental research that will contribute to some medical
understanding, some basic physical sciences understanding, and a better
understanding of the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere."
He also took up a flag from Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va., his alma
mater, that another graduate had taken up Mount Everest.
"I'm going to get it a little bit higher up, but I won't have to walk as far
to get it there," he said, on a separate occasion.
Didn’t Think He’d Become an Astronaut
Born April 16, 1956, in Arlington, Va., Brown received a degree in biology
from the college of William and Mary in Virginia in 1978, and got his
doctorate in medicine from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1982.
In the NASA interview, Brown said he was asked as a child if he wanted to be
an astronaut, but never really took the questions seriously.
"I just thought I was kind of a normal kid," he said. "I couldn't see a path,
how a normal kid could ever get to be one of these people that I just
couldn't identify with."
Although Brown had never traveled to space before his Columbia mission, he
had logged thousands of flight hours in high-performance military aircraft,
having flown the A-6E Intruder and F/A-18, and he is qualified as first pilot
in NASA T-38 aircraft.
He was selected by NASA to be an astronaut in April 1996.
On the day he was to be launched into space, Brown left a final message on
the telephone answering machine of his parents, Paul and Dorothy Brown of
Washington, Va.
"Mom and Dad, it's Dave," he said on the tape. "It's launch morning I'm on
the launch pad right outside the shuttle. It's just beautiful here, and I
hope you have a safe trip back. We're going to have a great trip to space. I
love you guys, and I'm about a couple of minutes from getting into the
vehicle. Bye, bye."
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