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Navigating to the Moon — Remembering the Apollo Sextant

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Rick SpilmanJuly 21, 2019

Sailors have navigated by the stars since the dawn of time. Now, fifty years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in the Apollo 11 mission, we shouldn’t forget that even the Apollo astronauts relied on sextants to … Continue reading →

Posted in Current, History, Lore of the Sea | Tagged Apollo 13, Jim Lovell, moon, Neil Armstrong, sextant
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