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Sextants in Space
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2013 Aug 29, 11:36 -0700
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2013 Aug 29, 11:36 -0700
A year ago, there were discussions of the celestial navigation system used aboard the Apollo spacecraft. Here is a documentary made at the beginning of the program, sometime in the 1960's.
http://kottke.org/13/08/the-apollo-guidance-computer
Amazing how technology has advanced in less than 50 years.
Don Seltzer
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