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Joe Raedle

Inspiration4 pilot Sian Proctor waves to the crowd before being driven to the suit up room near the launch pad.

A Port-au-Prince neighborhood lies ruined and reeling on January 16, 2010, just four days after one of the more devastating quakes in recent memory rocked the island nation of Haiti. Scientists with seismic equipment monitor about half a million earthquakes a year and very few of them are even strong enough to be noticed by people on the surface. But larger earthquakes take a heavy toll. About 10,000 people lose their lives to earthquakes each year, an average weighted by catastrophic events like the Haitian quake.

People purchase plywood at The Home Depot as they prepare for Hurricane Irma on September 6 in Miami, Florida. It's still too early to know where the direct impact of the hurricane will take place but the state of Florida is in the area of possible landfall.

The Miami skyline was clouded by storm clouds as Hurricane Irma approached the city on September 9.