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.