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Old 10th Oct 2012, 07:09
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Dg800
 
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I may be getting the parachuting definition of free fall mixed up here but surely Apollo 10 was in free fall after it's last main engine burn to put it on it's Earth trajectory, IE from Moon orbit?
The capsule was indeed free-falling, the record is however for human parachutists and not for airdropped cargo. Too meet the defining criteria for parachute jump the parachutist has to actually step out of the vehicle (and let go of it! ) and then land under his own canopy.

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