"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
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No, although they did give the orbital speed in furlongs per
fortnight.

I made the time-dilation factor as about 0.999999999644 (square
root of 1 minus beta-squared), with Schirra spending about 1062000
seconds in space at orbital speed and beta equal to 8 km/sec over the
speed of light (close enough to 300,000 km/sec). Schirra would have
lost about 400 microseconds.

--Bill Thompson



African or European ?



Oh Monty Python, I thought it was about time for another appearance........
Good one and well thought.

Bruce R