NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its targeted lift-off time next week has been postponed by two days, the US space agency said on Monday.
Kennedy Space Center lies near the middle of a 240-mile stretch of Florida's Atlantic shore, where forecasters say Tropical Storm Nicole is most likely to strike Wednesday night or early Thursday as a category 1 hurricane.
Nicole's approach prompted NASA to delay that launch window by at least two days, to Wednesday, November 16, giving workers extra time to tend to families and homes before the storm and to ready the rocket for flight afterward. “It could be many hours of sitting out on the crawlerway exposed to the forces from the wind, and that would be the absolutely worst scenario,” Burger told Reuters.
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