 Shortly after the system was declared a tropical storm , gale warnings were issued for the central Bahamas starting on October 8 . Slightly more than 24 hours later , a hurricane watch was issued on Eleuthera and the Abaco Islands . By early on October 11 , both of the alerts were discontinued . Later that day , gale warnings were issued from Cape Lookout , North Carolina to Virginia Beach , Virginia . The warning area was extended to as far north as Nantucket , Massachusetts on October 13 . The warning for the area from Cape Lookout , North Carolina to Virginia Beach , Virginia was discontinued late on October 14 . Simultaneously , gale warnings were issued from Nantucket to Cape Cod , Massachusetts . In addition , another gale warning was also issued from Cape Cod to Boston , Massachusetts . By October 15 , all gale warnings were discontinued . Early in the hurricane 's duration , NASA developed a contingency plan for delaying a landing of the space shuttle Challenger by a day in the event Josephine passed near Kennedy Space Center . The shuttle crew filmed the hurricane from orbit using an IMAX camera . This footage of the storm was featured in the 1985 IMAX documentary The Dream is Alive . 
