Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigation Tools
To determine position in space, an Apollo astronaut located a specific star using a telescope and then took a fix using a sextant.
This pair of Weems-type second-setting “avigation” watches in a shock-mounted case dates from about 1934.
Its principal purpose was to determine magnetic variation.
An astrodome provided an enclosed area from which a navigator could take sightings.
Ed Collen, a NASA engineer, built this prototype device as a backup for Apollo astronauts in case their primary navigation system failed.
A standard military drift sight through the World War II and early Cold War eras.
One of the first effective models of bubble sextant for aeronautical use.
These aircraft served as flying classrooms for training U.S. Army Air Forces navigators in World War II.
