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    Default NASA Remembers September 11th

    This page chronicles some of NASA's remembrances of the September 11 attacks and the Americans who died that day.

    Astronaut Frank Culbertson -- The Only American Off the Planet


    Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station at the time of the attacks, and the only American on the crew. As soon as he learned of the attacks, he began documenting the event in photographs because the station was flying over the New York City area. He captured incredible images in the minutes and hours following the event. From his unique vantage point in space, he recorded his thoughts of the world changing beneath him.

    The following day, he posted a public letter that captured his initial thoughts of the events as they unfolded. "The world changed today. What I say or do is very minor compared to the significance of what happened to our country today when it was attacked."

    Upon further reflection, Culbertson said, "It's horrible to see smoke pouring from wounds in your own country from such a fantastic vantage point. The dichotomy of being on a spacecraft dedicated to improving life on the earth and watching life being destroyed by such willful, terrible acts is jolting to the psyche, no matter who you are."

    NASA - Astronaut Frank Culbertson Letter from September 11, 2001

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    A smoke plume rises from lower Manhattan in this photo by Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.





    NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of a large plume of smoke streaming southward from the remnants of the burning World Trade Center.



    Smoke can still be seen at the site at around 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 12, in this image from the Landsat 7 satellite.

    NASA Science Programs Monitor the Air

    NASA science programs were called into action after Sept. 11, 2001, as the agency worked with FEMA to fly sensors over the affected areas on aircraft looking for aerial contaminants and used satellite resources to monitor from above.
    Flags for Heroes and Families

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    STS-108 astronauts Mark Kelly, left, and Dan Tani hold commemorative American flags the shuttle Endeavour in December 2001. The flags were later presented to victims' relatives.
    Image credit: NASA NASA flew nearly 6,000 4 by 6 inch flags on Endeavour's flight during STS-108 to honor the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Students working at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas assembled the commemorative packages, including the U.S. flags flown in space, to be presented to relatives of the victims. Distribution began on June 14, 2002, National Flag Day, at a ceremony held at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York.

    "The 'Flags for Heroes and Families' campaign is a way for us to honor and show our support for the thousands of brave men and women who have selflessly contributed to the relief and recovery efforts," said then-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin. "The American flags are a patriotic symbol of our strength and solidarity, and our Nation's resolve to prevail."

    "NASA wanted to come up with an appropriate tribute to the people who lost their lives in the tragic events of September 11," added Goldin. "America's space program has a long history of carrying items into space to commemorate historic events, acts of courage and dramatic achievements. 'Flags for Heroes and Families' is a natural extension of this ongoing outreach project."

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    Commemoration Goes to Mars

    Honeybee Robotics, one of the companies involved in building the Mars Exploration Rovers, is located just outside of New York City. As a tribute to the fallen, Honeybee created a dust cover for each rover's rock abrasion tools of aluminum, about the size of a credit card and adorned with the American flag that was cut out of debris from the World Trade Center. The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are currently on the surface of Mars.

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    NASA Kennedy Adds Florida Touch to Sept. 11 Flag

    The contributions of NASA and Kennedy Space Center were stitched into the fabric of one of the nation's most recognizable symbols, when flags from Florida's Spaceport were sewn into an American Flag recovered near ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

    "A few days after the collapse of the World Trade Center this flag was hanging on a scaffolding at 90 West Street, which was a building directly south of the World Trade Center that was heavily damaged when the south tower collapsed," said Jeff Parness, director, founder and chairman of the "New York Says Thank You Foundation."

    The flag went on to become one of the most enduring symbols of the recovery from the attack. Once complete, "The National 9/11 Flag" will become a permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum being built at the World Trade Center site. There, America's flag can evoke a sense of pride, unity and hunger to keep achieving greatness, just as the nation's space program has for more than half a decade.


    Kennedy Adds Florida Touch to 9/11 Flag




    The contributions of NASA and Kennedy Space Center were stitched into the fabric of one of the nation's most recognizable symbols Friday when flags from Florida's Spaceport were sewn into an American Flag recovered near ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

    "The National 9/11 Flag" is on a cross-country journey to be restored to its original 13-stripe design using pieces of fabric from American flags destined for retirement in all 50 states. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex was the official stop for the state of Florida on Feb. 18.

    "For our site to be chosen, you know, on one hand I believe is all together fitting and proper because what we do at Kennedy Space Center is dare mighty things on behalf of the American people and all of humankind," said Joe Dowdy, special operations manager at Kennedy. "Some of that involves sacrifice and certainly this flag is an incredible demonstration of what free people sometimes have to be called upon to do, to sacrifice even their own lives."

    The Brevard Police and Fire Pipes and Drums kicked off the stitching ceremony, followed by the United States Air Force 45th Space Wing Honor Guard stationed at nearby Patrick Air Force Base and more than a dozen 9/11 first responders.

    A host of Floridians were invited to take part in the stitching ceremony, including Danny McKnight, the retired Army Colonel who led the ground convoy in 1993's battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, the combat depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."

    Craig Carson, an agent with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office who was nominated to take part in the ceremony, spent eight to nine months helping with the recovery effort in New York City.

    "It was miraculous," Carson said. "It seemed like the whole world showed up to New York City that day to help. It was amazing."

    The flag has become one of the most enduring symbols of the recovery from the attack.

    "A few days after the collapse of the World Trade Center this flag was hanging on a scaffolding at 90 West Street, which was a building directly south of the World Trade Center that was heavily damaged when the south tower collapsed," said Jeff Parness, director, founder and chairman of the ?New York Says Thank You Foundation."

    Charlie Vitchers, the construction superintendant for the cleanup of ground zero, sent a crew up to rescue the flag, Parness said. Seven years later, Vitchers donated the flag to the organization so it could make a new mark in American history.

    LeRoy Haynes was a supervising fire marshal and commander of the Bronx/Queens Fire Department and was on the corner of New York City's Church and Vesey streets, headed to the emergency command center at the World Trade Center with co-workers when the first tower began to crumble.


    "We all ran and that big cloud of dust and smoke started to come at me," Haynes recalled. "That cloud was coming faster than I could run, the wind blew my helmet off and at that point in time all I could do was dive under a car."

    Haynes survived and gathered all the strength and spirit he could to help setup a triage center on Broadway later that day. Haynes said he remembered seeing the flag in the aftermath of the attack.

    "The flag was a mess. It was full of holes, parts were burned, singed, and it looked like it had been in a war," Haynes said. "It was amazing that it was one of the few things still standing."

    Earlier this year, "The National 9/11 Flag" became a symbol of healing at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. Born Sept. 11, 2001, Green was killed at a town hall event held by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, on Jan. 8, 2011. Giffords is the wife of STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly.

    "We realize that there are so many things that will never be made whole again, but this flag can be made whole again," Parness said. "There's this cathartic element of 'Well, I can finally do something. I can hold this needle and thread and try to make this whole.'"

    The flags of Kennedy join other rich pieces of history, including parts of the flag that President Abraham Lincoln was laid on in 1865 after he was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

    "I kind of think of America as this magnificent mosaic," Dowdy said. "It's composed of all these various events, various places that make us a very special country. So there's this wonderful parallel about what this flag represents and what we represent here at Kennedy."

    The star-spangled banner, which brings new meaning to national collaboration, later stood proud amongst rockets and capsules from NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo days at the visitor complex's Rocket Garden. Including hundreds of people at Kennedy, "The National 9/11 Flag" is estimated to have touched more than 100 million lives.

    Once complete, "The National 9/11 Flag" will become a permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum being built at the World Trade Center site. There, America's flag can evoke a sense of pride, unity and hunger to keep achieving greatness, just as the nation's space program has for more than half a decade.


    Image above: Jeff Parness talks about the work and devotion that has gone into the nationwide effort to restore an American Flag recovered from the area around ground zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.




    mage above: The National 9/11 Flag was raised over the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex after Florida's contribution was added.




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    It?s a great thing that Americans have such pride in their flag and that their government encourage it.
    It?s near illegal in this country to fly the union jack, and that?s only if you?re lucky enough to find one to buy.
    We had the 7/7 bombing in this country. If on the 10th anniversary we raised our flags we would be told to get them down for fear of offending some one.

 

 

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