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Sharing a silent moment are, from left to right in the foreground, Kylie Moritz, JSC Director Roy Estess, Greg W. Hayes, Director, Human Resources; Brock R. (Randy) Stone, Deputy Center Director; and John H. Casper, Director, Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance Office. JSC employees gathered in the Teague Auditorium and key areas of Mission Control Center to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the attacks on America on September 11, as part of President Bush’s “Anthems of Remembrance” event. The brief event started at 7:46 a.m. CST, the exact moment of the attack three months ago. The United States and Russian national anthems were played in the shuttle and station flight control rooms in Mission Control and aboard the shuttle and the space station. The three commanders aboard the two spacecraft -- Shuttle Commander Dominic L. Gorie, Expedition Three Commander Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. and Expedition Four Commander Yury Onufrienko, shared their personal thoughts and inserted a special pre-recorded message from the rest of the crew currently in orbit.