(This story was updated to add new information.)
The world’s second-busiest cruise port remained open days before landfall from the Category 5 Hurricane Milton .
Port Canaveral was open Monday, Oct. 7, a day after Milton outgrew tropical storm strength to become a hurricane. Five cruise ships at the port on Monday left the Space Coast of Florida (home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, about an hour away from Orlando theme parks), and several were scheduled to return to port later this week. Projected landfall for Hurricane Milton was the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, on the west coast of Florida, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami…