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.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida to test solutions as they were developed and to practice in Marshallâs Neutral Buoyancy Simulator. At the Kennedy Space Center, the astronautsâ Saturn IB rocket was kept on immediate standby to carry the rescuers and their equipment to Skylab. At 8 a.m. on May 25, the first crew, whose mission was called âSkylab 2,â was launched from the Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Conrad, Kerwin and Paul Weitz headed toward the orbiting work-shop. The rendezvous occurred at 3:30 that afternoon. On the following day, May 26, the crew began to deploy the solar parasol â an orange vipstop nylon-Mylar