Table 2.

Significant differences in righting time for different tactics, 16-day mission. The fastest tactics are listed first (s and columns). Data have been pooled for all postflight measurements R0–R154. Note that corkscrew righting is not significantly faster than U-posture righting

	Corkscrew		U-posture		U and C		L-posture
Group	C	F	C	F	C	F	C	F
n	233	353	248	269	14	89	46	77
Axial	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Corkscrew			—	—	*	†	†	†
U-posture					*	†	†	†
U & C							†	†

C, flight cage and vivarium cage ground controls; F, flight

^†P < 0.0001;

^*P < 0.05, n = 1673 axial control; n = 496 axial flight, comparing tactics in columns with tactics in s.