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 FILE- In this file photo of Aug. 2, 2011, One World Trade Center towers over lower Manhattan in New York. Once called the Freedom Tower, it will rise to 1776 feet when completed. Out of the ashes of 9/11 has risen a vibrant neighborhood packed with new restaurants and hotels, places to live and spots to shop, along with many ways to pay respects to an area some worried would never come back. A decade after the attack on the World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan draws roughly 9 million of the city's nearly 50 million visitors a year, including the area around ground zero. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)  

NASA releases images of 9/11 taken from space station

1:10 PM 09/09/2011
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When the towers of the World Trade Center fell on September 11, 2001, one American was not on the planet.

Astronaut Frank Culbertson had been aboard the International Space Station for a month when the 9/11 attacks occurred, joined only by two Russian cosmonaut crew mates. He could only monitor the events of the day from 300 miles above the Earth.

On Friday, NASA released letters Culbertson wrote and images he took as the space station passed over the New York City area after the 9/11 attacks.

Full story: 9/11 from space: Astronaut shares pictures and thoughts

Tags: 9/11, 9/11 anniversary, International Space Station, NASA