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- Navigators & Inventors: James A. Lovell, Jr.
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Left to right: Apollo 8 astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., William A. Anders, and Frank Borman.
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Celestial navigation involved taking readings with a sextant that were automatically fed into the Apollo Guidance Computer.
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To determine position in space, an Apollo astronaut located a specific star using a telescope and then took a fix using a sextant.
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James Lovell looks through the telescope in the Apollo 8 command module.
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James Lovell was an Apollo astronaut who navigated to the Moon and back twice.
