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.