Hurricane Ian was a dangerous Category 4 storm when it hit the Gulf Coast of Florida.
According to the National Hurricane Center, live views of Hurricane Ian were shown on the International Space Station.
"Ian has made landfall as an extremely dangerous Hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 150 mph," NHC officials wrote. The sun sets at 3:20 pm
Minutes before the NHC report, NASA broadcasted its views from the space station. The video stream showed a glimpse of the storm from an altitude of about 250 miles.
Hurricane Ian is threatening catastrophic destruction in Florida.
The first image of two.
The astronauts on the space station are watching the storm. The storm was just south of Cuba when they captured the amazing views. The images were released by NASA.
The image is the first of three.
The time was 2p.m. Ian was expected to make a turn to the northeast on Thursday as it moved towards the north-Northeast.
On the forecast track, the center of Ian is expected to move over central Florida tonight and Thursday morning and emerge over the western Atlantic by late Thursday. Ian is expected to turn northward on Friday and approach the northeastern Florida coast, along with the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.
In the days leading up to Hurricane Ian's landfall, Florida state officials ordered people to leave their homes along the coast. The Artemis 1 mission was going to be launched on the first Space Launch System rocket, but NASA decided to put the rocket in the hangar at the Kennedy Space Center.
There was a delay in the launch of a new crew to the International Space Station. That mission, which will carry two American astronauts, a Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut, is now scheduled to lift off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center no earlier than October 4, a one day slip.
The Kennedy Space Center is being staffed by a small group of people to ensure the safety of NASA's hardware and systems. The US Space Force took precautions to protect the station from Hurricane Ian.
"As Hurricane Ian increases and people prepare for its impact, I'm thinking of our NASA workforce and families in Florida, especially those on the NASA Kennedy ride-out team," NASA chief Bill Nelson wrote on the social networking site. I would like to thank you for your hard work. NASA will do everything to make sure you are safe and well.
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