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| | Space Today Online - Shuttle Endeavour 6,000 flags honor those lost in September 11, 2001, terror attack |
 | | Some 6,000 small American flags were carried to orbit by the seven-member crew of space shuttle Endeavour on flight STS-108 on Dec. 5, 2001, to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. |
 | | Those crew members had been carried into space by Endeavour and were preparing to come home after setting a record for length of time spent by Americans in a space flight. |
 | | As shuttle flight STS-108 ferried the fourth crew to the International Space Station, it completed a record-breaking year of missions as well as the first phase of assemblying the space station in orbit. |
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