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This unit was designed for navigating vehicles on land using Transit satellite transmissions and a magentic compass and monitoring the speed of movement. 
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This computer, located in the Alabama’s navigation center, processed the data derived from the gyroscopes and accelerometers.

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Mariner 10 used the gravity of Venus to propel itself to Mercury.

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A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery. 

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Beginning in 1961, U.S. manned space missions were controlled from this room, "Mercury Control," at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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