From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Re: Landing Push up 1.5 Hours
Article-I.D.: alice.680
Posted: Sat Jun 19 10:21:29 1982
Received: Sun Jun 20 03:41:23 1982
References: gsp86.125

It is true that NASA is considering pushing back the first landing
at KSC to either STS-6 (January, 1983) or STS-7 (Spring, 1983)
instead of STS-5 (tentatively scheduled for 11 November, 1982).
This is in order to gain more crosswinds landing data for the
shuttle.  At KSC, corsswinds prevail, and they would rather have
the bird fly off the side of the runway at Edwards, where there
is just desert, than at KSC, where there are alligators.