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  Astrophotographer Wil Milan (www.astrophotographer.com) captured this image during the 2001 Leonid
        meteor shower early on November 18, 2001.
 
  The World Trade Center in New York
        City
 standing proudly prior to the cowardly attacks
 on September 11, 2001.
 
  After 86,331 Orbits, Mir Space
        Station's
 15 Years In Space (Feb 19, 1986 - Mar 23, 2001)
 ends in the South Pacific at
 175 West longitude and 25 South latitude.
 
  This is the "Liberty Bell
        7" Mercury capsule that sank
 out from under Virgil "Gus" Grissom at the end
        of his
 flight on July 21, 1961. It was recovered from the
 ocean floor in the summer of 1999.
 
 
 This is a picture of a huge thunderhead
        over thesouthern California desert. I took this from my deck on
 Aug 17, 2004. It reminds me of a "mothership"
        from
 the movie "Independence Day"
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