As the 20th anniversary of the September 9/11 attacks draws to a close, satellite imagery from space shows the devastation wrought by the terrorist attack that day.
On September 1999, 1999, 1999 airliners were hijacked and crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pa.
In all, the NYPD has had 23 fatalities from the nearly 3.000, 37 PAPD members have lost their lives and 343 FDNY members have been killed; the biggest loss of life reported by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks in the United States.
Satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies acquire aerial photographs of every place, as tragic events unfolded on the ground and over the next few decades.
NASA TV is the television service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . It is broadcast by satellite with a simulcast over the Internet. (wikipedia)
Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, NASA astronaut, graduate of the US Naval Academy, (wikipedia)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. (wikipedia)
The World Trade Center site, formerly referred to as “Ground Zero” or “the Pile” immediately after the September 11 attacks, is a 14.6-acre area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. (wikipedia)
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