Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What happened to KSC Shuttle Landings
Message-ID: <1989Oct8.015654.12141@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3410@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <1173@ispi.UUCP> <4468@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 89 01:56:54 GMT

In article <4468@buengc.BU.EDU> art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson) writes:
>>After the Challenger they decided that there were too many risks involved to
>>land at KSC (no alternate runway, swamp all around, etc)
>
>Did any of the shuttle flights ever actually land at KSC?

Yes, a few of them did.  Before Challenger, NASA was trying quite hard to
make KSC the primary landing site, although there were a number of diversions
to Edwards for weather reasons.
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