ASTRONAUTS CAPTURE HURRICANE FRANCES FROM SPACE



Mike Rein                                                              
                                          August 27, 2004
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone: 321/867-2468)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Texas
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

KSC Release No. 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.

	
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