Will the Space Shuttles survive? Hangars not meant for this

[Windy]

Just positing an interesting question. The hangars that house the space shuttles are designed to withstand 120 gusts max. The Vehicle Assembly Building, already moderately damaged by Frances, is capable of handling slightly (but not much) more. All are roughly 9 feet ASL on a small penninsula. They're going to catch the NE quad, from the looks of it.

[Vandymit]

Perhaps, we can spend some of the money we've been wasting on the recent space program failures on the people in Florida.

[Hurrilurker]

Perhaps, we can spend some of the money we've been wasting on the recent space program failures on the people in Florida.

These hurricanes are going to cost us pretty close to the annual budget of NASA (~$15 billion). I think we've already sent something like...what...$5+ billion down there? And that's just in immediate emergency funds, pre-Jeanne. But hey, if you really want to compare funding, we could have paid for a century's worth of these disaster years by not going into Iraq. And by the way, guess who got all those satellites up there for you to look those pretty satellite pictures? NASA did.

[HurryKane]

Well said, Hurrilurker.