The scale of Hurricane Milton , theCategory 5 stormcurrently augur to make landfall as aCategory 3storm along the west - central seashore of Florida tardily on Wednesday or early Thursday morning , has been captured in footage from the International Space Station ( ISS ) .
Several angles of the hurricane were catch , by cameras attached to the outer space station itself , as well as from SpaceX ’s Crew Dragon ejector seat Endeavourcurrently dockedwith the ISS .
" External cameras on the International Space Station captured newfangled views of category 4 Hurricane Milton at 9:37 a.m. EDT October 8 as it churned across the Gulf of Mexico , head for an expected landfall around Tampa , Florida in the former morning hour Oct. 10,“NASA explainsof the footage below . " As of 8 a.m. EDT on Oct. 8 , Milton was packing winds of 145 miles an hour [ 233 kilometers per 60 minutes ] and strengthen as it moved in an east - northeast way toward the west sea-coast of Florida . "
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Footage has also been captured from inside the violent storm , by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) ’s Hurricane Hunters . NOAA on a regular basis makes flight of stairs inside hurricanes to supervise them and make prediction about their procession . Using two aircraft – nicknamed " Kermit " and " Miss Piggy " – the hurricane specialist take datum from inside the optic of the hurricane itself .
While the tempest is expect tocausedevastationas it hits land , it is also posing smaller problem for astronaut on board the ISS .
The distance place , currently overcrowded after problems with Boeing ’s Starliner spacecraft left astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded on boarduntil 2025 , was due to send two crew penis back to Earth this week . As the storm rage below , NASA have hold over the return of Crew-8 .
" NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than 3:05 a.m. EDT Sunday , Oct. 13 , for the undocking of the Crew-8 foreign mission from the International Space Station due to weather condition and potential impingement from Hurricane Milton across the Florida peninsula , " the agencyexplained in an update . " foreign mission managing director cover to monitor conditions , with the next conditions briefing planned for 11 a.m. Friday , Oct. 11 . "
NASA astronautsMatthew Dominick , Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps , and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin will have to wait a footling longer to return to Earth .
