[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2003)]
[Presidential Documents]
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                Proclamation 7646 of February 1, 2003

                
Honoring the Memory of the Astronauts Aboard 
                Space Shuttle Columbia

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                As a mark of respect for Rick Douglas Husband, William 
                C. McCool, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Kalpana Chawla, 
                Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, and Ilan Ramon who 
                gave their lives during the mission of STS-107 aboard 
                the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003, I 
                hereby order, by the authority vested in me as 
                President of the United States of America by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, that the flag of the United States shall be 
                flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all 
                public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and 
                naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal 
                Government in the District of Columbia and throughout 
                the United States and its Territories and possessions 
                through Wednesday, February 5, 2003. I also direct that 
                the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same 
                length of time at all United States embassies, 
                legations, consular offices, and other facilities 
                abroad, including all military facilities and naval 
                vessels and stations.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                first day of February, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand three, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and twenty-seventh.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

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