NASA发布九一一卫星图像
9/12/2021
（早报讯）九一一恐怖袭击事件二十周年纪念日，美国宇航局（NASA）公布了有关当日恐袭事件的罕见卫星图像。
美国福克斯新闻网报道，NASA公布的卫星图像显示，在恐怖分子劫持的客机撞向纽约世贸中心双子塔之后，太空中可见曼哈顿地区上空的滚滚浓烟。
NASA还分享了美国宇航员弗兰克·卡伯特森（Frank Culbertson）在国际空间站目睹“9·11”事件的感受。卡伯特森是当时国际空间站机组人员中唯一一位美国人，在空间站飞越纽约上空时，他用照片记录了事发后的场景。
卡伯特森说，“在宇宙飞船上看到国家的一处‘伤口’正冒浓烟，实在是太可怕了。无论是谁，眼看生命正被恐怖行为摧毁，你一定会感到震惊。”
20 Years On From 9/11: How A NASA Astronaut Witnessed The Dastardly Attacks From Space
As Commander Frank Culbertson was at the International Space Station when he was informed about the attacks, he closely observed the terror attack
By Aayush Anandan
9/12/2021
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were an American national tragedy triggered by the terror outfit al-Qaeda, which resulted in the loss of lives of thousands of people and changed the American culture forever.
Interestingly, at the time when the 9/11 attack took place, NASA had a crew in outer space, which began to monitor the event as soon as they were informed about the incident. Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson was stationed at the International Space Station and was the only American on the crew.
The story of Astronaut Frank Culbertson
As Commander Frank Culbertson was at the International Space Station when he was informed about the attacks, he began to closely observe the terror attack by capturing photographs. Luckily, the station was hovering over the Manhattan area, thus it made the process a bit easier. He captured many images during the attack and saw the world change within minutes in front of him.
NASA released a video on their YouTube channel back in 2013 where they first revealed that the International Space Station had documented the terror attack. The video is also an emotional tribute to the lives lost during the 9/11 attacks and talks about how NASA collaborated with the American Government and military for other high-profile missions like infiltrating Afghanistan. Station Astronaut Frank Culbertson again talks about his observations and the breath-taking images he clicked from the ISS of the 9/11 attacks.
May 13, 2013
Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson says “it’s important for people to continue to learn the lessons” from the tragedy of September 11, and make ourselves a better nation. Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station at the time of the attacks, and the only American off the planet. He captured incredible images of New York City in the minutes and hours following the event.
Later, he talked regarding the images he clicked, “The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city. After reading one of the news articles we just received, I believe we were looking at NY around the time of, or shortly after, the collapse of the second tower. How horrible!”
He further said that before he was informed about the attack, he looked at the debris and saw a big cloud of dust and smoke across the Manhattan Area. He said that after seeing the aftermath of the attack, it was too painful for him because it was like a “wound in the side of your country, of your family or of your friends.”’
NASA wanted to pay a proper tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attack and did exactly on the tenth anniversary of the attack by taking an American flag on metal recovered from the site of the World Trade Centre towers and placing it on the surface of the planet Mars. The flag was recovered shortly after the destruction of the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, and it was taken to Mars on Sept. 11, 2011.
NASA later said, “NASA wanted to come up with an appropriate tribute to the people who lost their lives in the tragic events of September 11. America’s space program has a long history of carrying items into space to commemorate historic events, acts of courage and dramatic achievements.”
FBI公开首份九一一调查文件
文 / 李丽敏
9/12/2021
（早报讯）在美国总统拜登签署一项行政命令要求解密并公开九一一恐袭事件调查文件的八天后，美国联邦调查局（FBI）于星期六（9月11日）九一一20周年之际，发布了第一份调查文件。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道，这份新解密的文件日期是2016年，内容有FBI针对一名沙特阿拉伯领事官员和一名怀疑是沙特阿拉伯情报员的洛杉矶学生进行的调查工作细节。这两人相信为至少两名在2001年9月11日骑劫飞机的男子提供旅行、住宿、融资等方面的支援。
据报道，尽管FBI公开了调查文件，但内容经过编辑，一些细节仍未被披露。FBI下来料将公开更多与九一一恐袭事件相关的文件。
沙特阿拉伯驻华盛顿大使馆上周三（8日）表示，它“欢迎”FBI公开调查文件，并重申“任何关于沙特阿拉伯参与九一一袭击的指控都是绝对不实的”。
