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Nicole, newly classified as a hurricane, was packing sustained winds of up 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour) as it made landfall on Grand Bahama Island, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center reported. Grand Bahama, Bimini and the Berry Islands in the northwest corner of the island nation remained under a hurricane warning. As the storm closed in earlier in the day, some Bahamas residents fled their homes amid fierce winds and flooding. Storm surge caused widespread devastation to Florida's Gulf Coast when the last major storm, Hurricane Ian, crashed ashore there on Sept. 28, causing an estimated $60 billion in damage and claiming more than 140 lives. Several counties along the Florida coast issued mandatory orders and voluntary evacuation advisories for homes near the shore and on barrier islands.
A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Japanese astronaut are about to spend the next two days aboard a tiny Soyuz capsule bound for the International Space Station. The Soyuz, which ferries astronauts and cosmonauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS), has a vacuum-like toilet that sucks urine out of the space environment and into a collection bin. Of course, since they're in space, the astronauts can strap themselves onto the station toilet so they don't float away while they're doing their business. Thankfully, the culture of space travel has changed a lot, too, as more and more women become astronauts. PBS did a fascinating interview with female astronauts and NASA engineers about what it was like when women first started going to space, and had to pee there:
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