This is cool, but if you compare the landing footage from STS-1 and Buran, the Buran landing looks decidedly squirrelly, I'm not sure I would want to be on that

This is cool, but if you compare the landing footage from STS-1 and Buran, the Buran landing looks decidedly squirrelly, I'm not sure I would want to be on that ride. On the other hand, John Young waxed the first STS landing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnTFJ1BcHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnTFJ1BcHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPexsehcMhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPexsehcMhw They do say there was a bad crosswind, but really I think a spaceplane should be able to avoid bad weather.