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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 ...

The Apollo program utilized a sextant, a centuries-old navigational instrument, as a backup guidance and navigation system in the Command Module, independent of the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and ...

Lt.-Cmdr. Daniel O'Regan shows off his favourite piece of almost 300-year-old navigational technology: the sextant. Even though we live in the high-tech GPS era when it comes to getting around, it ...

The Airbus A330 that I fly across the Atlantic to any of several European cities is equipped with onboard navigation computers that tell us in the cockpit exactly where we are at any time. But when ...