There was one American aboard the ISS on 9/11/01

wow

This makes me sad.

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all of the contrails that are normally crisscrossing the United States has disappeared because they had grounded all the airplanes and there was nobody else flying in U.S. airspace — except for one airplane that was leaving a contrail from the central U.S. toward Washington, and that was Air Force One headed back to D.C. with President Bush. It was a very sobering time for us."

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Wow

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"Every orbit we kept trying to see more of what was happening," Culbertson said. "One of the most startling effects was that within about two orbits, all of the contrails that are normally crisscrossing the United States has disappeared because they had grounded all the airplanes and there was nobody else flying in U.S. airspace — except for one airplane that was leaving a contrail from the central U.S. toward Washington, and that was Air Force One headed back to D.C. with President Bush. It was a very sobering time for us."

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I thought he was in Florida?

If you look closely you can see the thermite and magma...

Interesting story and pic...

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It is also germans by about 13 years.

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TD wasn't around 13 years ago so frick off

Pres. Bush was reading story books in an elementary school classroom in Florida at the time. He was interrupted by his staffers to inform him of the attack.

After leaving Florida, Air Force One took him to Barksdsle AFB in Louisiana, then on to Nebraska.

Edited for posterity.

Gotcha. Thanks. I thought he was reading at a school in Florida.

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how fast can the ISS orbit the earth?

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17,150 miles per hour.

Makes a complete path once every 92 minutes.