A sextant used in the rescue of Titanic survivors will be sold at auction in the U.K. later this month. The sextant belonged to Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, who was one of ...
Generations of midshipmen at the Naval Academy have been required to learn the toughest and most ancient tenets of seamanship: how to point a contraption called a sextant at a few stars, do some ...
Kansas is to the ocean as celestial navigation is to the 21st century – seemingly unrelated to one another. But all those things might come together because of a Wichita company. The U.S. Navy ...
There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables, knowledge of the heavens ...
Deep space navigation is going old-school. The International Space Station resupply mission that blasted off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in the predawn hours of May 21 carried high-tech ...
Quartermaster 3rd Class Craig Warner uses a navigational instrument on the USS Rushmore in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 26, 2015. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Chelsea Milburn/U.S. Navy) The Feb. 18 Economy & ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apollo spacecraft contained a ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apollo spacecraft contained a ...
December 6, 2021: In late 2021, Russian video appeared that showed a heavy bomber in flight with one of the crew using s slide rule, apparently to calculate course and/or fuel consumption rate. Most ...
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