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Cape reopens Wednesday NASA NEWS RELEASE Posted: October 25, 2005 NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., will open for business Wednesday morning. The center sustained minor hurricane damage. The impact of Hurricane Wilma on Kennedy facilities is being evaluated. Preliminary assessments indicate no damage to space flight hardware or NASA's space shuttle fleet. Some Kennedy facilities sustained minor roof damage or interior water damage when Wilma passed through Monday. The center's landmark Vehicle Assembly Building lost some panels on the east and west sides, and some facilities are without power. Wilma dropped 13.6 inches of rain at Kennedy's Space Shuttle Landing Facility. The highest wind gust recorded was 94 mph from the north-northwest at launch pad 39B. The maximum sustained wind was 76 mph from the north-northwest at the top of the 492-foot weather tower north of the Vehicle Assembly Building. For Kennedy employees and visitors, the Max Brewer Causeway on State Road 406, between Titusville and the center, has structural damage and is closed. |
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This 2005 Atlantic hurricane season has a been a record-breaker. Satellite imagery since June 1 has been compiled into this movie to track the 21 named storms as they formed and traveled, many making landfall.
International Space Station cameras captured this incredible video of Hurricane Wilma and its well-defined eye from an altitude of 220 miles. Wilma was packing winds of 175 miles an hour as a Category 5 storm when the station flew overhead.
NASA has used the Hubble Space Telescope for scientific observations of the Earth's moon in the search for important oxygen-bearing minerals -- potential resources for human exploration. Scientists held this news conference on October 19 to discuss their investigations.