From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Re: Landing Push up 1.5 Hours
Article-I.D.: alice.667
Posted: Wed Jun 16 07:59:48 1982
Received: Fri Jun 18 04:37:23 1982
References: watmath.2687

The reason for hoping for heavier crosswinds is that NASA still
have not tested the landing performance of the shuttle in crosswinds,
which prevail at the strip at KSC.  Due to this, they have pushed
the first landing at KSC from next November to April of next year
in order to gain enough data from the strip at Edwards, where it
is much safer to land, since you have a wider margin on error.