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Aalice.474 net.columbia utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!wheps!zeppo!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Mon Mar 29 22:25:30 1982 Shuttle Landing ``The probabilities are high that we will go to Kennedy Space Center.'' That word came from shuttle control today, after Columbia's scrubbed landing. However, an attempt will be made to land the shuttle at White Sands at 1107 EST (yes, it's EST). If that is impossible, an attempt will be made for the 15,000 paved strip at KSC either 6 minutes later, or at 1447 EST, one orbit later. Officials are confident the shuttle can make it, as it stopped within 7,000 feet on the last two missions, but the prospects of going off the sides (it is 300 feet wide) into an alligator filled moat are not comforting.

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