Porter-area historical tornado activity is near Oklahoma state average. It is 167% greater than the overall U.S. average.
The Space Shuttle program, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972.
Aboard the Shuttle. Dennis Jenkins. Events affecting the choice of computer systems for the emerging Space Shuttle can be traced back to the Apollo era. Before the first piloted Apollo flight, NASA was working on defining an orbiting laboratory ultimately known as Skylab.