From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: EAFB Lakebed Scratched
Article-I.D.: alice.1094
Posted: Wed Nov 10 19:50:25 1982
Received: Fri Nov 12 03:43:58 1982

NASA has decided to scrap plans to land on the dry lakebed
at EAFB due to heavy rain there.  At the moment, one inch
of water covers the lakebed.  After the first orbit, the primary
landing site will be runway 22, the concrete runway at EAFB,
where STS-4 landed.  From launch until the completion of orbit
1, the emergency abort site will be either White Sands Missile
Range, landing site of STS-3, or the concrete strip at KSC.
No delay in launch is expected.