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T O P I C R E V I E WRobert PearlmanPresently a Category 1 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as of Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 29), Idalia will rapidly grow into a major hurricane before making landfall on the Florida coast early Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Per the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the KSC Bus Tour and Apollo/Saturn V Center will not be operating on Wednesday (Aug. 30). All other exhibits at the main visitor complex will operate under normal conditions and be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.The American Space Museum in Titusville will be closed on Wednesday. The museum will attempt to reopen on Thursday.The launch of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) has been delayed. Out of an abundance of caution for personnel safety, a critical national security payload and the approaching Idalia, the team made the decision to return the rocket and payload to the vertical integration facility (VIF). Robert PearlmanNASA video External cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Idalia at 10:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, as the station flew 260 miles overhead. Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m. near Keaton Beach, Florida, along the state's Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm packing winds of 125 miles an hour. Idalia had peaked to a Category 4 storm with 130 mile per hour winds prior to landfall. The system is moving to the north-northeast at 18 miles an hour, heading for the southeast United States and then out over the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.
External cameras on the International Space Station captured views of Hurricane Idalia at 10:35 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023, as the station flew 260 miles overhead. Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m. near Keaton Beach, Florida, along the state's Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm packing winds of 125 miles an hour. Idalia had peaked to a Category 4 storm with 130 mile per hour winds prior to landfall. The system is moving to the north-northeast at 18 miles an hour, heading for the southeast United States and then out over the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m. near Keaton Beach, Florida, along the state's Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm packing winds of 125 miles an hour. Idalia had peaked to a Category 4 storm with 130 mile per hour winds prior to landfall.
The system is moving to the north-northeast at 18 miles an hour, heading for the southeast United States and then out over the Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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