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May 5th 07, 09:29 AM
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"muff528" wrote:
"William R Thompson" wrote: (about Wally Schirra's elapsed time in space) Sigma 7: 9 hours 13 minutes 11 seconds Gemini 6: 25 hours 51 minutes 43 seconds Apollo 7: 260 hours 9 minutes 3 seconds which adds up to 295 hours 13 minutes 57 seconds. Is that taking relativistic time dilation into consideration? That's got to be good for a -second or -two! At orbital speed (about 8 km/sec) time dilation doesn't even amount to one second over 295 hours. If I've crunched the number right, it's in the microsecond range. --Bill Thompson 
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