Topic: Hurricane Idalia and space sites in Florida
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 50970 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-29-2023 04:02 PM
Presently 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 Pearlman Editor
Posts: 50970 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-30-2023 03:28 PM
NASA 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.
posted 08-29-2023 04:02 PM
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