NASA
News
National
Aeronautics and
Space
Administration
John
F.
Kennedy
Space
Center
Kennedy
Space Center,
Florida
32899
AC
321 867-2468
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mike
Rein
Kennedy
Space Center,
Fla.
August
27, 2004
(Phone:
321/867-2468)
James
Hartsfield
Johnson
Space Center,
Texas
(Phone:
281/483-5111)
PHOTO
RELEASE: P12-04
ASTRONAUTS CAPTURE
HURRICANE FRANCES FROM
SPACE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION – This
photo of Hurricane Frances
was taken by Astronaut Mike Fincke aboard the International Space Station as he
flew 230 statute miles above the storm at about 10
a.m. EDT
today, Aug. 27. At the time, Frances was located 820 miles east of the Lesser
Antilles in the Atlantic Ocean, moving west-northwest at 10 miles per hour, with
maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. Fincke, the NASA ISS Science
Officer and Flight Engineer, and Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka are in
the fifth month of a six-month flight aboard the Station.
www.spaceflight.nasa.gov
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