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Aboard the International Space Station -- September 10th -- Tuesday begins -- Checking in -- 8:00 a.m. in New York City -- The hijackings -- Inside air traffic control -- The first plane -- The second hijacking -- The military gears up -- The second plane -- Live, on air -- At Emma Booker Elementary School, Sarasota, Florida -- First reactions in D.C. -- American Airlines Flight 77 -- The third plane -- On Capitol Hill -- Flight 93 in peril -- The World Trade Center evacuation -- Jumping -- The FAA makes history -- The Trade Center rescue continues -- The first collapse -- Inside the cloud -- Inside the PEOC -- The military responds -- The fourth crash -- Fear at the Pentagon -- The first casualty -- Around the towers -- After the collapse -- The rescue at Shanksville -- At school in Arlington, Virginia -- Aboard Air Force One, somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico -- Among those who knew -- Escaping the Pentagon -- In between collapses -- The second collapse -- Trapped in the ruins -- After the collapse -- At the waterfront -- Midmorning at the Pentagon -- Midmorning at the Capitol -- With the Secretary of Defense -- At Barksdale Air Force Base -- Midday in New York City -- Midday in Washington -- Airborne, somewhere over the plains -- Afternoon in Shanksville -- At Mount Weather -- At Ground Zero -- At the hospitals -- The 9/11 generation -- At Offutt Air Force Base -- Afternoon in America -- Searching -- 9/11 at sea -- Afternoon at the Pentagon -- Airborne en route to Andrews Air Force Base -- Evening in Washington -- In the Oval Office -- The evening of 9/11 -- The day ends -- Epilogue.