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HRES 49 108th Congress House Commemorations Astronautics Astronauts Awards, medals, prizes Congress Congressional tributes Space activities Space shuttles

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, all of whom died in the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia.

Introduced: February 4, 2003 See on congress.gov
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Feb 28, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
Feb 4, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
Feb 4, 2003
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Calls for the President to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the astronauts who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia: Rick Husband; William McCool; Michael Anderson; Kalpana Chawla; David Brown; Laurel Clark; and Ilan Ramon.
What's happening now February 28, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.

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