[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 6 (Monday, February 10, 2003)]
[Pages 151-152]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7646--Honoring the Memory of the Astronauts Aboard Space 
Shuttle Columbia

 February 1, 2003

 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

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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.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:04 a.m., February 4, 
2003]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on 
February 5. The Office of the Press Secretary also released a Spanish 
language version of this proclamation.