Current
Brown stopped being a pilot when he turned 70 but he still lectures. He is a regular attendee of British Rocketry Oral History Programme (BROHP), where the annual presentation of the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards takes place. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award for 2007. He now lives in semi-retirement in Copthorne, West Sussex.
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