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11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, SpaceRef
“The news from Earth that morning wasn’t good. Frank Culbertson would soon find that some of the day’s pre-planned routine would be altered. As soon as he was told of the attacks, Culbertson checked to see when they would be passing over the east coast of the U.S. Discovering that this was only some minutes away, Culbertson grabbed a camera. The window in Mikhail Tyurin’s cabin turned out to be the one with the best view.”
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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Like the assassinations of John Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy, or the losses of Challenger and Columbia, this is a moment that remains indelibly etched in memory. To me it is one of the finest examples of the bravery of ordinary people. To honor them, I wrote at the time: