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- Topic: Navigation Tools
Soviet cosmonauts used this device on their Soyuz spacecraft to supplement the ground-based navigation system.
Space Shuttles used onboard star trackers to locate their position in space with high accuracy.
Marine Chronometer, signed William Bond & Son, about 1867.
Smithsonian scientist with a vehicle equipped with a Transit land navigation system.
The certification set for the first-general aviation LORAN-C receiver.
It reduced computations for celestial sightings through the use of the Greenwich Hour Angle.
Books published by the Weems System of Navigation.
The Nautical Almanac, first published in 1766
A useful handbook of astronomical tables, meteorological information, and navigational instructions.
Engineers checking the second Transit satellite.