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Lead Shuttle Flight Director Wayne Hale shares private words of encouragement and gratitude with his flight control team at the conclusion of the STS-108 portion 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 will be 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 played a special pre-recorded message from the rest of the crew currently in orbit.