AW: [FPSPACE] Vostok Flight Duration

JamesOberg@aol.com JamesOberg@aol.com
Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:04:21 EDT


Here's a theory: the "pilot time" is time IN the spacecraft. 

His later time on the parachute is to be added to that time.

However, I doubt that the parachutist impact was instrumented, and would have 
to be measured by stopwatch, by an observer in an aircraft or the cosmonaut 
himself.

That might account for the mention of a stopwatch in some of the early FAI 
records registration claims.